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просвеще́ние — meaning in English

Prosveshcheniye

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English meaning

  • education noun The process of teaching or learning, especially in schools.
  • enlightenment noun The state of having clear understanding, insight, or wisdom.
  • sophistication noun Refined taste, worldly knowledge, or cultured elegance.

Senses

просвеще́ние is used for these senses in English:

  • Enlightenment (history) A 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual movement emphasizing rationalism. The period during which it flourished is called the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason.
  • education (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
  • enlightenment An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
  • sophistication Enlightenment or education.

education — full definition

  1. noun The process of teaching or learning, especially in schools.
  2. noun The knowledge, skills, and understanding gained through learning.

enlightenment — full definition

  1. noun The state of having clear understanding, insight, or wisdom.
  2. name The Enlightenment: an 17th-and-18th-century European intellectual movement that championed reason and science over tradition and superstition.

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