Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Education in a structured environment explicitly designed to teach students, usually in classrooms with certified teachers.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom never received a formal education.

  2. He had almost no formal education.

    ruУ него не было почти никакого формального образования. — odexed

    deEr hatte so gut wie keine ordentliche Schulbildung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Tom had little formal education.

  4. The definitive treatise was written by someone with no formal education in the subject.

    deDie endgültige Abhandlung wurde von jemandem geschrieben, der keine formelle Ausbildung in dem Thema hatte. — Yorwba

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Forms

plural: formal educations

See also

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