istruzione superiore

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Italian

Etymology

Literally, superior instruction.

Noun

istruzione superiore f (plural istruzioni superiori)

  1. higher education
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      ... aveva frequentato la scuola negli anni Sessanta... privo di altre possibilità di accedere a un'istruzione superiore.
      ... had attended the school in the 1960s... no other options for a higher education.
      (literally, “... he had attended the school during the sixties... without other possibilities of accessing a higher education.”)