higher learning

noun

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

Examples of higher learning in a Sentence

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Gemini Season activates your sector of expansion, travel, and higher learning for the first three weeks. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 May 2025 But that won’t prevent real harm to students and higher learning. Kevin Carey, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 International students helped buoy American universities after the Great Recession In recent decades, international enrollment has shaped, and in some places transformed, higher learning across the country. Kevin Carey, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Mercury in Gemini activates your exotic ninth house of higher learning, travel and philosophy. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 25 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for higher learning

Word History

First Known Use

1826, in the meaning defined above

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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 11 Jul. 2025.

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