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'.

Typed by Clint--From WordNet

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

Checked by Abram

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

Typist: Ronald

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