Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun higher_education

1 sense of higher education

Sense 1
higher education -- (education provided by a college or university)
       => education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity -- (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded")