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Main Entry:
pedagogics [ped-uh-goj-iks, -goh-jiks]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: education
Synonyms: apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, instruction, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring
Main Entry: schooling
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: education
Synonyms: apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, instruction, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogics, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring
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Main Entry: culture
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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Main Entry: education
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
abecedarian, abiological, academic, accredited, acroatic, apt, basal, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, chrestomathic, coeducational, collegiate, communicatory, decanal, didactic, didascalic, disciplinal, docile, doctrinal, donnish, educable, educational, educative, emeritus, expository, extracurricular, extramural, fledged, heuristic, in leading strings, inkhorn, instructive, intercollegiate, interscholastic, intramural, learned, misteaching, nod, polytechnic, postdoctoral, postgraduate, predoctoral, professorial, question, scholarly, scholastic, school, self, studious, tardy, taught, teachable, teaching, tenured, unedifying
Main Entry: knowledge
Part of Speech: noun
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acataleptic, accomplished, acquainted with, acromatic, acuminous, acute, alive, alive to, aposterioristic, apprized of, arch, argute, ascertained, astute, at home in, autodidactic, awake, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, blue, book-learned, bookish, bright, calculating, canny, clear-eyed, clear-headed, clear-sighted, clear-witted, clever, cognitive, cognizable, cognizant of, cognoscible, commonplace, commonsensible, conscious of, considerate, conversant with, cool, cool-headed, declaratory, deep, deep-read, discerning, educated, eleatic, enlightened, equitable, erudite, esoteric, expedient, fair, familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy, familiar with, far-sighted, forward in, fox-like, gnomic, hackneyed, hard-headed, heaven-born, heaven-directed, impartial, in advance of one's age, in one's right mind, in the secret, informed, informed of, inscient, instructed, intelligent, judicious, keen, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, knowing, known, learned, let into, lettered, long-headed, long-sighted, made acquainted with, metempirical, nasute, needle-witted, nimble-witted, no stranger to, noted, notorious, of unwarped judgment, omnilegent, omniscient, oracular, palpable, pancratic, panoptic, pedantic, penetrating, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, politic, prehensible, privy to, proficient in, profound, proverbial, provident, prudent, quick, quick of apprehension, quick-eyed, quick-sighted, quick-witted, rational, read in, reasonable, received, recognized, reflecting, reported, sagacious, sage, sapient, scholastic, scient, scious, scrutable, self-taught, sensible, sententious, sharp, sharp as a needle, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, shrewd, sober, solid, sound, staid, strong in, strong-headed, strong-minded, supraliminal, thoughtful, trite, unbiased, unbigoted, undazzled, undeceived, unperplexed, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, up to, versed in, watchful, well-advised, well-conned, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-judged, well-known, well-read, wide-awake, wise, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon, wise as a serpent, wise in one's generation
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Information.
Synonyms:
-nouns
information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge; publicity., communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqué; representation, round robin, presentment., case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news; return (record); account (description); statement (affirmation)., mention; acquainting; instruction (teaching); outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness., informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece;, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard, spy, newsmonger; messenger; amicus curiae., valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary (journey)., hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture (indication); gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; word to the wise; insinuation (latency).
-verbs
tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart to; make acquainted with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken., let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of., let one know, have one to know; give one to understand; give notice; set before, lay before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one in possession of; instruct (teach); direct the attention to., announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword, send word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an account; give an account (describe)); state (affirm)., disclose., show cause; explain (interpret)., hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink (indicate); suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear., give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all; speak volumes., undeceive, unbeguile; set right, correct, open the eyes of, disabuse., be informed of; know; learn; get scent of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand., come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge; reach one's ears.
-adjectives
informed; communique; reported; published., expressive; explicit (open), (clear) [more]; plain spoken, (artless) [more]., nuncupative, nuncupatory; declaratory, expository; enunciative; communicative, communicatory.
-adverbs
from information received.
-phrases
a little bird told me.
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Knowledge.
Synonyms:
-nouns
knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics., light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression (idea); discovery., system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy; acroama; theory, aetiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia (encyclopaedia); school (system of opinions)., tree of knowledge; republic of letters (language)., erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge; education (teaching); culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge (skill); liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments (beginning)., deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology., march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad.
-verbs
know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware of; ween, weet, trow, have, possess., conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy [U.S.], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience., know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be au courant; have in one's head, have at one's fingertips; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaître le dessous des cartes, know what's what [more]., see one's way; discover., come to one's knowledge (information) [more].
-adjectives
knowing; cognitive; acromatic., aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au fait, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived., proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in; conversant with, familiar with.
-adverbs
to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
-phrases
one's eyes being opened (disclosure) [more]; ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner [French: to know all is to pardon all]; empta dolore docet experientia;; "half our knowledge we must snatch not take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher [German: years teach more than books]; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers" [Tennyson]; "knowledge is power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia [Horace]; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds"
Antonyms: ignorance
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Learning.
Synonyms:
-nouns
learning; acquisition of knowledge, acquisition of skill [more]; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self- instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry., apprenticeship, prenticeship; pupilage, pupilarity; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation., docility (willingness); aptitude.
-verbs
learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning., acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote., read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves., study; be studious; consume the midnight oil, mind one's book., go to school, go to college, go to the university; serve an (or one's) apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed; be taught.
-adjectives
studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile (willing); apt, industrious [more].
-adverbs
at one's books; in statu pupillari (learner).
-phrases
"a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]; ancora imparo! "hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson]; "lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod" [Gay].
Antonyms: teaching
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