paideia

Meaning of paideia

noun
  1. An Athenian system of education designed to give students a broad cultural background focusing integration into the public life of the city-state with subject matter including gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy
  2. The epitome of physical and intellectual achievement to which an Ancient Greek citizen could aspire; societal and cultural perfection.
  3. An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.
  4. (frequently attributive) A pedagogical system focusing on providing children with a broad and balanced education.

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Hyphenation of paideia

paideia

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • paideia is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with paideia

deia, aldeia, codeia

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