Synonyms for training
ˈtreɪ nɪŋtrain·ing

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1. training

   Education (Latin educere, to lead or draw out) is the systematic development and cultivation of the mind and other natural powers. "Education is the harmonious development of all our faculties. It begins in the nursery, and goes on at school, but does not end there. It continues through life, whether we will or not.... 'Every person,' says Gibbon, 'has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.'" John Lubbock The Use of Life ch. vii, p. 111. [Macmillan & Co. '94.] Instruction, the impartation of knowledge by others (Latin instruere, to build in or into) is but a part of education, often the smallest part. Teaching is the more familiar and less formal word for instruction. Training refers not merely to the impartation of knowledge, but to the exercising of one in actions with the design to form habits. Discipline is systematic and rigorous training, with the idea of subjection to authority and perhaps of punishment. Tuition is the technical term for teaching as the business of an instructor or as in the routine of a school; tuition is narrower than teaching, not, like the latter word, including training. Study is emphatically what one does for himself. We speak of the teaching, training, or discipline, but not of the education or tuition of a dog or a horse. Breeding and nurture include teaching and training, especially as directed by and dependent upon home life and personal association; breeding having reference largely to manners with such qualities as are deemed distinctively characteristic of high birth; nurture (literally nourishing) having more direct reference to moral qualities, not overlooking the physical and mental. Knowledge and learning tell nothing of mental development apart from the capacity to acquire and remember, and nothing whatever of that moral development which is included in education in its fullest and noblest sense; learning, too, may be acquired by one's unaided industry, but any full education must be the result in great part of instruction, training, and personal association. Study is emphatically what one does for himself, and in which instruction and tuition can only point the way, encourage the student to advance, and remove obstacles; vigorous, persevering study is one of the best elements of training. Study is also used in the sense of the thing studied, a subject to be mastered by study, a studious pursuit. Compare KNOWLEDGE; REFINEMENT; WISDOM.

   Compare synonyms for IGNORANT.

   Synonyms:
   breeding, cultivation, culture, development, discipline, education, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, reading, schooling, study, teaching, tuition

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy

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1. training, preparation, groomingnoun

   activity leading to skilled behavior

   Synonyms:
   homework, cooking, formulation, breeding, provision, preparedness, grooming, education, readying, planning, dressing, readiness, prep, cookery, preparation

2. education, training, breedingnoun

   the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

   "a woman of breeding and refinement"

   Synonyms:
   instruction, rearing, education, breeding, nurture, facts of life, educational activity, gentility, teaching, preparation, reproduction, bringing up, procreation, raising, didactics, fosterage, fostering, grooming, upbringing, pedagogy, genteelness

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   • Upbringing

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1. trainingnoun

   Synonyms:
   instruction, teaching, education, drilling, drill, discipline, schooling, breeding, tuition, nurture

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1. trainingnoun

   Synonyms:
   discipline, nurture, drilling, exercise

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1. List of paraphrases for "training":

   formation, trained, train, education, instruction, learning, formations, trainings, forming, formazione, retraining, entrainment, capacitación, formación, educational, formação, courses, coaching, skills-training, weiterbildung, teaching, ripple, course, formative

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1. Lindsey Vonn:

   I think this year was up-and-down, i didn't have a chance to get in a lot of training because of my injuries. But when I have training and I have confidence, I ski like I did this week.

2. Kyle Chalmers:

   There's not many things that I want to change, but there's probably those few things that are going to come with taper and swimming that bit faster in training.

3. Stephen Lee:

   Dogs require constant training while the elephants seem to understand and remember the scent without the need for constant training.

4. Dana Nessel:

   The individuals in( state) custody are suspected to have attempted to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war, and engaged in planning and training for an operation to attack the capitol building of Michigan and to kidnap government officials, including the governor of Michigan.

5. Scott Johnson:

   Society has turned police officers into psychologists with guns, and they don't have the training for that.