discipline

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a branch of knowledge
  2. noun a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
  3. noun the trait of being well behaved

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick

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