<B>educational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with education. <BR> <I>Ex. The teachers in our school belong to the state educational associations.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>giving education; tending to educate. <BR> <I>Ex. Our science class saw an educational motion picture about wild animals.</I> (SYN) instructive. adv. <B>educationally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="educationalist">
<B>educationalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an authority on the methods and principles of education; educator. <BR> <I>Ex. These young people hardly need the vague group-games of the educationalists (Richard D. Sullivan).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="educationalpark">
<B>educational park,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a group of elementary and secondary schools built on a large tract of land, with many facilities used in common. <BR> <I>Ex. The commission called educational parks, or clusters of schools, a "revolutionary" technique that might provide common experiences for children of different backgrounds (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="educationalpsychology">
<B>educational psychology,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the use of psychological knowledge and methods to study concepts and techniques of education and to solve educational problems. <BR> <I>Ex. We have concentrated on what are uniquely the concerns of educational psychology--what teachers are trying to do and why, how children's development affects what and how they learn, and how efficient learning can be fostered in the classroom (William C. Morse and G. Max Wingo).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="educationaltelevision">
<B>educational television,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>noncommercial television broadcasting that features school and university-licensed instructional programs. <DD><B> 2. </B>any television broadcasting that has educational or cultural appeal. </DL>
<A NAME="educationary">
<B>educationary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-aries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person interested in education. <BR> <I>Ex. The educationaries, young and intent, [were] sitting before him in a large tiered classroom (New York Times Magazine).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="educationese">
<B>educationese, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the jargon of educators. <BR> <I>Ex. What kind of person is it who enjoys the aesthetics of a bell-shaped curve, the rhetoric of educationese, or the poetry of the primer? (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="educationism">
<B>educationism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> undue emphasis on formal education and its institutions. </DL>
<A NAME="educationist">
<B>educationist, </B>noun. =educationalist.</DL>
<A NAME="educationpark">
<B>education park,</B> =educational park.</DL>
<A NAME="educative">
<B>educative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that educates; instructive. <BR> <I>Ex. the educative value of travel.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with education. </DL>
<A NAME="educator">
<B>educator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person whose profession is education; teacher. <BR> <I>Ex. The educator does not pour truths or untruths into the minds of others, but draws out of others their latent abilities and stimulates them to be original and creative (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an authority on methods and principles of education; leader in education. </DL>
<A NAME="educatory">
<B>educatory, </B>adjective. =educative.</DL>
<A NAME="educe">
<B>educe, </B>transitive verb, <B>educed,</B> <B>educing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to bring out; draw forth; elicit; develop. <BR> <I>Ex. The science teacher's questions educed many facts about gardens and flowers.</I> (SYN) extract. </DL>
<A NAME="educement">
<B>educement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of educing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being educed. </DL>
<A NAME="educible">
<B>educible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be educed. </DL>
<A NAME="educrat">
<B>educrat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a representative or official of an educational system, agency, or institution. </DL>
<A NAME="educt">
<B>educt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>something that is educed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Chemistry.) a substance extracted unchanged from another substance. </DL>
<A NAME="eduction">
<B>eduction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of educing. <DD><B> 2. </B>something educed; educt. <DD><B> 3. </B>an exhaust, such as that of steam after some device has completed its work. </DL>
<A NAME="eductive">
<B>eductive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> educing; tending to educe. </DL>
<A NAME="eductor">
<B>eductor,</B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that educes. </DL>
<A NAME="edulcorate">
<B>edulcorate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-rated,</B> <B>-rating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Chemistry.) to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to sweeten. </DL>
<A NAME="edulcoration">
<B>edulcoration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of edulcorating. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being edulcorated. </DL>
<A NAME="edwardian">
<B>Edwardian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the reign of Edward VII, 1901-1910, of England. <DD><B> 2. </B>having characteristics considered typical of Edwardians, especially in manners, elegance, and grandeur. <BR> <I>Ex. He was wearing a dark Edwardian suit with broad white stripes (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a person of the period of Edward VII. </DL>
<A NAME="edwardiana">
<B>Edwardiana, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> furniture, clothing, books, or other products of the Edwardian period. <BR> <I>Ex. These "junk shops" sell the antique dealers' cast-offs, late Victoriana, Edwardiana (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="edwardianism">
<B>Edwardianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the ideas, beliefs, or way of living common during the reign of Edward VII. <BR> <I>Ex. The author, like so many of his generation, was obsessed with Edwardianism, its real opulence and unreal self-confidence (Economist).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an object, manner of speech, style of dress, or the like, characteristic of the Edwardian period. <BR> <I>Ex. How like her aunt it was to use an out-of-date Edwardianism like "smitten" (Josephine Tey).</I> </DL>
<B>-ee,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix added to verbs to form nouns.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person who is ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Absentee = a person who is absent.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who is ______ed. <BR> <I>Ex. Appointee = a person who is appointed.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person to whom something is ______ed. <BR> <I>Ex. Mortgagee = a person to whom something is mortgaged.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a person who ______s. <BR> <I>Ex. Standee = a person who stands.</I> </DL>
<B>eel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a long, slippery fish shaped like a snake, with continuous dorsal, caudal, and anal fins and lacking ventral fins. Eels live in fresh water or salt water. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various similar fishes, such as the electric eel and lamprey. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=eelworm.</B> adj. <B>eellike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="eeler">
<B>eeler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who catches eels. </DL>
<A NAME="eelfare">
<B>eelfare, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the passage of young eels up a river. <DD><B> 2. </B>a brood of young eels. </DL>
<A NAME="eelgrass">
<B>eelgrass, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a sea plant with long, narrow leaves, growing under water along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America. <DD><B> 2. </B>a freshwater plant with ribbonlike leaves springing directly from the root, growing in shallow ponds; wild celery. It belongs to the frogbit family. </DL>
<A NAME="eeling">
<B>eeling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fishing for eels. </DL>
<A NAME="eelmother">
<B>eelmother, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a European eelpout, a viviparous fish. </DL>
<A NAME="eelpot">
<B>eelpot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a basket or other container with a funnel-shaped entrance used for trapping eels. <BR> <I>Ex. In the late fall and early winter, when the eels in the river ... bring their highest prices, Mr. Ingold and Willy set eelpots (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>eelworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various small nematode worms, some injurious to plants, such as the vinegar eel. </DL>
<A NAME="eely">
<B>eely, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like an eel; wriggling. </DL>
<A NAME="een">
<B>e'en, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> even. </DL>
<A NAME="eer">
<B>e'er, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> ever. </DL>
<A NAME="eer">
<B>-eer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix added to nouns to form nouns and verbs.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person who directs or operates, as in <BR> <I>Ex. auctioneer, charioteer.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who produces, as in <BR> <I>Ex. pamphleteer.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to be concerned or deal with, as in <BR> <I>Ex. electioneer.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="eerie">
<B>eerie, </B>adjective, <B>-rier,</B> <B>-riest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>causing fear; strange; weird. <BR> <I>Ex. An eerie feeling crept upon us in the dark and eerie old house. At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold (R. L. Stevenson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>timid because of superstition. (SYN) fearful. </DL>
<A NAME="eerily">
<B>eerily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an eerie manner. <BR> <I>Ex. The wind whistled eerily in the chimney.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="eeriness">
<B>eeriness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> eerie quality or condition. <BR> <I>Ex. I won't say that it doesn't have the eeriness which is peculiar to all owls, but it seems more down to earth and nearer home (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
