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educationese

educationese noun: the jargon used by educators.

Noun

educationese (uncountable)

  1. The jargon used by educators.

Origin of educationese

From education + -ese.

Questions about educationese

What does educationese mean?
Educationese means the jargon used by educators.
What part of speech is educationese?
Educationese is a noun.

Words near educationese in the dictionary

  1. educationalizes
  2. educationalizing
  3. educationally
  4. educationals
  5. educationary
  6. educationese
  7. educationism
  8. educationist
  9. educationists
  10. educationless
  11. educationlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: educationese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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