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ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elementary education mean?
• ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (noun)
The noun ELEMENTARY EDUCATION has 1 sense:
1. education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school
Familiarity information: ELEMENTARY EDUCATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("elementary education" is a kind of...):
didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)
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