higher learning

noun

: education, learning, or scholarship on the collegiate or university level

Examples of higher learning in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Scorpio season comes to a close with a full moon in Taurus activating your ninth house of expansion, higher learning and self-discovery. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024 Mid-month, the full moon will shake up your ninth house of higher learning, urging you to break free from limitations. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024 With prestigious institutions from Georgetown to Carnegie Mellon setting up campuses, Qatar has been able to project an image as the center for higher learning in the Middle East, usurping a position once held by far more populous countries such as Egypt and Lebanon. Allen Fromherz / Made By History, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024 But this caricature obscures a long-standing tension between academic freedom and the rigid bureaucracies endemic to higher learning institutions. Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for higher learning 

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Word History

First Known Use

1826, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of higher learning was in 1826

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“Higher learning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/higher%20learning. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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