educational

Pluraleducationals

1. 1
   of schoolingadjective

   Relating to education or to the process of teaching and learning.

   The school board approved new educational standards for the district.

   Educational policy was a central issue throughout the campaign.

   UsageThings are educational; a person who has had a lot of schooling is educated: an educational program, an educated woman.

   Similaracademic, scholastic, pedagogical, instructional

2. 2
   informativeadjective

   Providing useful knowledge or instruction; helping someone learn something.

   The museum's hands-on science exhibits are fun for kids and genuinely educational, too.

   Volunteers found their week at the clinic deeply educational.

   UsageCan be graded (very educational, more educational than) and often follows a verb: the trip was educational; often fun and educational.

   Similarinstructive, informative, enlightening, illuminating, edifying

   Note

   The 'relating to education' sense only sorts things into a category. An educational establishment is simply a place of learning, such as a school, not a more or less instructive one.

3. 3
   workshopnouncountable

   A seminar, workshop, or similar session organized to instruct or inform attendees.

   The nurse organized an educational for new parents at the clinic.

   Staff attended a brief educational on the updated billing software.

   UsageUsed mostly within unions and campaigning groups; elsewhere an educational session or a workshop is more usual.

   Similarseminar, workshop, session, briefing

   Note

   The same clipped noun as the travel-trade trip, but here an organization runs a teaching session of its own. In 1996, Gay Community News reported groups holding "internal and public educationals" on homosexuality.

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