EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)