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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun upbringing has 2 senses

• upbringing(n = noun.attribute) Array - properties acquired during a person's formative years; Array
is a kind of heritage, inheritance
has particulars: breeding, education, training, nurture, raising, rearing

• upbringing(n = noun.act) breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing - helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
is a kind of acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

upbringing

apprenticeship, basic training, breaking, breeding, conditioning, cultivation, development, discipline, drill, drilling, education, exercise, fetching-up, fostering, grooming, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, manual training, military training, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, practice, preparation, raising, readying, rearing, rehearsal, sloyd, training, vocational education, vocational training

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