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higher learning

higher learning noun: higher education.

Noun

higher learning (uncountable)

  1. Higher education.
    • Over the years, he has held various appointments, including former trustee of the journalists association and research society of the College newspapers of the institutions of higher learning in Hubei, correspondent of Information newspaper and newspaper of Wuhan Grain Industry College, editor of...1992, “Yu-chang Han”, in International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Ninth edition, Cambridge, England: International Biographical Centre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 305

Questions about higher learning

What does higher learning mean?
Higher learning means higher education.
What part of speech is higher learning?
Higher learning is a noun.

Words near higher learning in the dictionary

  1. higher institutions
  2. higher intermediate fare
  3. higher intermediate fares
  4. higher intermediate point
  5. higher intermediate points
  6. higher learning
  7. Higher Macdonald
  8. higher off the hog
  9. higher on the hog
  10. higher power
  11. higher powers

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