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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

educação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: educacao

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Education/ˌɛdʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #140 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A educação transforma vidas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.

    "She is pursuing higher education to become a doctor."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin ēducātiō ("breeding, upbringing, education"), stemming from ēducō ("I bring up, rear"), which is a combination of ē- (ex-, "out of") and ducō ("to lead, draw"). It entered the English language in the late 15th century via Old French, evolving from a reference to physical rearing to the systematic instruction and intellectual development of individuals.

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