different between education vs schoolie

English

Alternative forms

• (generally jocular) educashun, educamation

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ?duc?ti? (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ?d?c? (“I educate, train”), from ?d?c? (“I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect”). See educate.Morphologically educate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d????ke??n?/, /??dj??ke??n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: ed?u?ca?tion

Noun

education (countable and uncountable, plural educations)

1. (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
   • 2016-06-17 AROP JOSEPH "Education is the slight hammer that breaks the yoke of ignorance, and moulds knowledge, skills, ideas, good moral values in a person be it a child, a youth or full grown adult. no matter a persons age learning never stops".

2. (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.

Derived terms

Related terms

• educate

Translations

See also

• training
• schooling

References

• education at OneLook Dictionary Search
• education in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• education in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• auctioned, cautioned

English

Alternative forms

• schooly

Etymology

From school +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?li

Noun

schoolie (plural schoolies)

1. (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
   • 1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, page 176,

     Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.

   • 2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, page 78,

     Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.

   • 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 338,

     If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.

   • 2010, Garry Disher, Blood Moon, page 17,

     But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she?d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie.

2. (Australia) A schoolteacher.
3. (Britain, military) An education officer.
   • 2008, John H. Dunning, Seasons of a Scholar: Some Personal Reflections of an International Business Economist, page 46,

     Arbroath, being a training station for young naval airmen, also housed several ‘schoolies’ (education officers), four of whom lived in an adjacent building to mine. I quickly struck up a close friendship with two of the schoolies, Ron Horner and Vivian Price.

4. (US, fishing) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
   • 1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts?s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94,

     Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.

   • 2003, Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations, page 150,

     Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.

   • 2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88,

     Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.

Synonyms

• (senior school student attending school-leaving celebrations): leaver (Western Australia)
• (schoolteacher):
• (education officer):
• (bass that swims in a school): schoolie bass

Derived terms

• schoolies week

Translations

See also

• toolie