Synonyms for instruction
Most common
advice teaching pedagogy indoctrination lesson precept admonition
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Teaching — the act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge
teaching, education, advice, information, training, indoctrination, pedagogy, knowledge, discipline, didactics, schooling, notice, edification, tuition, light, enlightenment
Other
order, lesson, direction, counsel, charge, charre UK, admonition, precept, intelligence
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
- n. 2
An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
Related words
- Phrases
- instruction cycle instruction set
Forms
- Plural
- instructions → teachings, educations, advices, informations…
Choose the right word
Teaching is the more familiar and less formal word for instruction. 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.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- advice He will not change his mind in spite of my advice.
- teaching He is capable of teaching both English and French.
- pedagogy Is there any way to translate "pedagogy" into Maltese?
- indoctrination Providing lifesaving healthcare is not indoctrination.
- lesson She got full marks by memorizing the whole lesson.
- precept An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| instruction | falling | |
| advice | steady | |
| teaching | steady | |
| pedagogy | rising | |
| indoctrination | falling | |
| lesson | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- order2, light1
- 6 letters
- charge1, advice2, notice2, lesson2, charre
- 7 letters
- command2, counsel2, tuition3, precept2
- 8 letters
- training2, teaching2, pedagogy4
- 9 letters
- education4, knowledge2, statement2, direction3, schooling2, didactics
- 10 letters
- discipline3, admonition4
- 11 letters
- information4, edification5
- 12 letters
- intelligence4
- 13 letters
- enlightenment4
- 14 letters
- indoctrination5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (order2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- instruction
- Italiano
- istruzione
- Deutsch
- Belehrung