Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation
A level of language; formal is usually the level needed for writing Formal language is much more polite than informal language: He did not hit the ball over the fence
of formal dress; "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"
(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English"
Kişilerin hayata atılmadan, iş ve meslek kollarında çalışmaya başlamadan önce okul veya okul niteliği taşıyan yerlerde, genel ve özel bilgiler bakımından yetişmelerini sağlamak amacıyla belli kanunlara göre düzenlenen eğitim