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adult education

noun

  1. a program of noncredit courses for adults regardless of previous education, offered typically by a university extension or institute.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of adult education1

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

These community spaces offer guided walks, kids’ and adult education,and other chances to get outdoors–and if you want to get more involved, they often rely on volunteers to maintain trails, restore habitat, or even care for rehabilitated wildlife.

It stands very much in the way of that universal adult education which is our present concern.

We need more adult education, and our children must be filled with the truth so they can recite it forwards and backwards.

Adult education as a supplementary form of instruction was considered an integral part of the educational process.

The lodge members became interested in a State-wide program of adult education, and began a lending library of non-fiction books.

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