"higher education" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} higher education (uncountable)
  1. Education at university level or beyond. Wikipedia link: higher education Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Education Synonyms: tertiary-level education, further education, higher learning Translations (education at university level or beyond): ali təhsil (Azerbaijani), 高等教育 (gāoděng jiàoyù) (Chinese Mandarin), aliy tasil (Crimean Tatar), videregående uddannelse [common-gender] (Danish), højere uddannelse [common-gender] (Danish), kõrgharidus (Estonian), korkeakoulutus (Finnish), études supérieures [feminine] (French), enseignement supérieur [masculine] (French), Hochschulbildung [feminine] (German), felsőoktatás (Hungarian), pendidikan tinggi (Indonesian), ardoideachas [masculine] (Irish), istruzione superiore [feminine] (Italian), 高等教育 (kōtō kyōiku) (alt: こうとうきょういく) (Japanese), 고등교육 (godeunggyoyuk) (alt: 高等敎育) (Korean), високо образование (visoko obrazovanie) [neuter] (Macedonian), mātauranga matua (Maori), êducâtion avanchie [feminine] (Norman), wyższe wykształcenie [neuter] (Polish), ensino superior [masculine] (Portuguese), educație superioară [feminine] (Romanian), educație înaltă (Romanian), pregătire universitară [feminine] (Romanian), învățământ superior [neuter] (Romanian), вы́сшее образова́ние (výsšeje obrazovánije) [neuter] (Russian), vysokoškolské vzdelanie (Slovak), vysokoškolské vzdelávanie (Slovak), vysoké školstvo (Slovak), educación superior [feminine] (Spanish), educación más alta [feminine] (Spanish), högre utbildning [common-gender] (Swedish), eftergymnasial utbildning [common-gender] (Swedish), akademiska studier [plural] (Swedish), mataas na edukasyon (Tagalog), อุดมศึกษา (ù-dom-má-sʉ̀k-sǎa) (Thai), การศึกษาขั้นสูง (Thai), вища освіта (vyšča osvita) [feminine] (Ukrainian), nền giáo dục đại học (Vietnamese), addysg uwch [feminine] (Welsh)

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      "sense": "education at university level or beyond",
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      "sense": "education at university level or beyond",
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      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "education at university level or beyond",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "addysg uwch"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.