Educate
['edjʊkeɪt] or ['ɛdʒuket]
Definition
(verb.) give an education to; 'We must educate our youngsters better'.
(verb.) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; 'Cultivate your musical taste'; 'Train your tastebuds'; 'She is well schooled in poetry'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To bring /// 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.
Checker: Presley
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Train, discipline, teach, instruct, nurture, breed, school, EDIFY, drill, bring up, develop the faculties of, form the mind and character of.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Instruct, nurture, discipline, train, teach, develop, ground, school, initiate
ANT:Miseducate, misinstruct, misnurture
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Definition
v.t. to bring up children: to train: to teach: to cultivate any power.—adj. Ed′ucable.—n. Educā′tion the bringing up or training as of a child: instruction: strengthening of the powers of body or mind.—adj. Educā′tional.—adv. Educā′tionally.—n. Educā′tionist one skilled in methods of educating or teaching: one who promotes education.—adj. Ed′ucative of or pertaining to education: calculated to teach.—n. Ed′ucator.
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Examples
- But, suppose we should rise up tomorrow and emancipate, who would educate these millions, and teach them how to use their freedom? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But we will educate the one and eliminate the other. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It has always been my object so to educate you, as that you might, while still in your early youth, be (if I may so express myself) almost any age. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It might then not be worth any man's while to educate his son to either of those professions at his own expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You see, she has not had too much of that sort of existence as yet, and has not fallen in the way of means to educate her tastes or her intelligence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He made, he was the first monarch to make, an attempt to educate his people into a common view of the ends and way of life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Comintern had educated them there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The more prosperous landlords went to England to live, and had their children educated there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a difference amongst them as amongst the educated; and when I got to know them, and they me, this difference rapidly developed itself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We must set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting about now; the lower class must not be educated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In educating the youth of both sexes, their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Fish on his return from St. Louis, after he had argued the Edison side, he felt keenly that disadvantage, to say nothing of the hopeless difficulty of educating the court. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He is very good to his poor relations: pensions several of the women, and is educating a young fellow at a good deal of expense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sophy educates 'em. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The two little ones, whom Sophy educates, have only just left off de-testing me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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