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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does educational institution mean?
• EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION (noun)
The noun EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION has 1 sense:
1. an institution dedicated to education
Familiarity information: EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An institution dedicated to education
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("educational institution" is a kind of...):
establishment; institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "educational institution"):
preschool (an educational institution for children too young for elementary school)
school (an educational institution)
school (an educational institution's faculty and students)
college (an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university)
university (a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees)
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