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educate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb educate has 3 senses
- educate(v = verb.social) Array - give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better" is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
- educate(v = verb.cognition) develop, prepare, train - create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future" is one way to instruct, learn, teach
- educate(v = verb.social) civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" is one way to down, fine-tune, polish, refine
Derived forms noun educatee1, noun education4, noun education1, noun education6, adjective educative1, noun educator1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derived forms noun education4, noun education1, noun education3, noun education2, adjective educative1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derived form noun education5
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
educate, v. t. [L. educatus, p. p. of educare to bring up a child physically or mentally, to educate, fr. educere to lead forth, bring up (a child). See Educe.].
To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.
Syn. -- To develop; instruct; teach; inform; enlighten; edify; bring up; train; breed; rear; discipline; indoctrinate.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
educate, v.tr. (also absol.)
1 give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (a pupil, esp. a child), esp. as a formal and prolonged process.
2 provide education for.
3 (often foll. by in, or to + infin.) train or instruct for a particular purpose.
4 advise; give information to.
1 give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (a pupil, esp. a child), esp. as a formal and prolonged process.
2 provide education for.
3 (often foll. by in, or to + infin.) train or instruct for a particular purpose.
4 advise; give information to.
Derivative
educable adj. educability n. educatable adj. educative adj. educator n.
Etymology
L educare educat-, rel. to educere EDUCE
THESAURUS
educate
acculturate, advance, ameliorate, amend, better, boost, brief, bring forward, bring up, broaden the mind, catechize, civilize, coach, cultivate, demonstrate, develop, direct, discipline, drill, edify, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, explain, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give instruction, give lessons in, go straight, ground, guide, illumine, improve, improve upon, inculcate, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, lard, lift, make an improvement, meliorate, mend, nurture, open the eyes, prepare, promote, raise, ready, rear, reeducate, refine upon, reform, school, set right, sharpen the wits, show, show how, socialize, straighten out, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, train, transfigure, transform, tutor, upgrade, upliftROGET THESAURUS
educate
Teaching
VB teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, teach the young idea how to shoot, improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted.
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