instruction
The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
Example
“Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.”
Other meanings
An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
An order or command.
Synonyms
- education
- teaching
- educational activity
Related words
- instructional
- instructionless
- macroinstruction
- malinstruction
- microinstruction
- misinstruction
- nanoinstruction
- noninstruction
- overinstruction
- postinstruction
- instruction set architecture
- preinstruction
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "instructio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “instruction” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.