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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, book learning, coaching, cultivation, culture, discipline, drilling, enlightenment, guidance, instruction, learning, reading, schooling, training, tutelage, tutoring |
| Concept: | Teaching. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
teaching; instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy., qualification, preparation; training, schooling; discipline; exercise, excitation; drill, practice., persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda; indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation., explanation (interpretation); lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue, parable; discourse, prolection, preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua [U.S.]., exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, ABCs, initiation, A.B.C. (beginning) [more]., elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics, moral tuition., gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education; sloyd.
-verbs
teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten (inform)., inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate., given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right., sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, "teach the young idea how to shoot" [Thomson]; improve., expound (interpret); lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept; hold forth, preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral., train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, dry-nurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure (habituate)., put to nurse, send to school., direct, guide; direct attention to (attention); impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince (belief).
-adjectives
teaching; taught; educational; scholastic, academic, doctrinal; disciplinal; instructive, didactic; propaedeutic, propaedeutical.
-phrases
the schoolmaster abroad; a bovi majori disscit arare minor; adeo in teneris consuecere multum est [Vergil]; docendo discimus; quaenocent docent; qui docet discit; "sermons
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| Antonyms: | misteaching; learning |
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| Main Entry: | advice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recommendation |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advisement, advocacy, aid, bum steer, caution, charge, consultation, counsel, directions, dissuasion, encouragement, exhortation, forewarning, guidance, help, information, injunction, input, instruction, judgment, lesson, news, opinion, persuasion, prescription, proposal, proposition, recommendation, steer, suggestion, teaching, telltale, tidings, tip, tip-off, two cents' worth, view, warning, word, word to the wise |
| Notes: | advise (verb) means 'to offer advice to or counsel'; advice (noun) is an opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem |
| Antonyms: | betrayal, deceit, deception, falsehood, lie, misinformation, misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | doctrine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opinion; principle |
| Synonyms: | article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, credenda, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, implantation, inculcation, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, universal law, unwritten rule |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, heterodoxy, skepticism, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | edification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, education |
| Synonyms: | betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, irradiation, knowledge, learning, nurture, schooling, teaching, tuition, uplifting |
| Antonyms: | destruction, worsening |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
| Synonyms: | bodhi, broad-mindedness, civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, open-mindedness, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | evangelism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preaching |
| Synonyms: | ministration, sermonizing, spreading the word, teaching |
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in a higher being; community of believers |
| Synonyms: | canon, church, communion, confession, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, dogma, doxy, gospel, orthodoxy, persuasion, piety, piousness, principle, profession, religion, revelation, sect, teaching, tenet, theism, theology, worship |
| Antonyms: | agnosticism, denial, doubt, rejection, skepticism, unbelief |
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