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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (gumnasía, “athletic training, exercise”), from ?????? (gumnós, “naked”), because Greek athletes trained naked.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d??m?næs.t?ks/

Noun

gymnastics (uncountable)

1. A sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.

   Gymnastics was a significant part of the physical education curriculum.

2. Complex intellectual or artistic exercises or feats of physical agility.

   His mental gymnastics are legendary.

Derived terms

• artistic gymnastics
• rhythmic gymnastics

Related terms

• gym
• gymnasium
• gymnast
• gymnastic

Translations

See also

• gymnastics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gymnastics on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

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

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