educate

Definition of educate in English English dictionary: To instruct or train; {v} to bring up, breed, instruct; {f} instruct, teach, train; Ssegmi Ssinen Sekred; v 1) To provide with knowledge or training, esp through formal schooling; teach 2) To provide wit training for some particular purpose 3) To provide with information; to inform (Lat educare = to draw forth (that which is inherently within)); 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 train or develop the knowledge, skill, mind or character by formal schooling, teaching or training; 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; When someone, especially a child, is educated, he or she is taught at a school or college. He was educated at Haslingden Grammar School; give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better" train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry; To educate people means to teach them better ways of doing something or a better way of living. Drinkwise Day is mainly designed to educate people about the destructive effects of alcohol abuse. = inform; create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"; give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better"; train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry; train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"; (For the purposes of this plan, as used in objective #2, educate is defined as follows: ) Method and means to impart knowledge and skill on how and where to boat and fish
co-educate: To educate children of both sexes together
Because of their liberal leanings they will co-educate their children.
educated: Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree
educated: Simple past tense and past participle of educate
co-educate: educate persons of both sexes together
educ: learning, instruction, imparting of knowledge
educated: having or based on relevant experience; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate"
educated: possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) adequately educated in the use of numerical terms and concepts especially in arithmetical operations having or based on relevant experience; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate
educated: possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
educated: past of educate
educated: adequately educated in the use of numerical terms and concepts especially in arithmetical operations
educated: {s} knowledgeable, intellectual; learned, literate
educated: Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man
educated: Someone who is educated has a high standard of learning. He is an educated, amiable and decent man. = learned
educating: present participle of educate
re-educate: re-educate re-educates re-educating re-educated in AM, also use reeducate If an organization such as a government tries to re-educate a group of people, they try to make them adopt new attitudes, beliefs, or types of behaviour. We are having to re-educate the public very quickly about something they have always taken for granted. + re-education re-education a programme of punishment and re-education of political dissidents. to teach someone to think or behave in a different way

educate

Hyphenation

e·du·cate

Turkish pronunciation

ecyukeyt

Synonyms

instruct, teach, brainwash, brief, civilize, coach, cultivate, develop, discipline, drill, drum into, edify, enlighten, exercise, explain

Antonyms

learn

Pronunciation

/ˈeʤyo͞oˌkāt/ /ˈɛʤjuːˌkeɪt/

Etymology

[ 'e-j&-"kAt ] (verb.) 15th century. Latin educatus, past participle of educare (“to bring up (a child, physically or mentally), rear, educate, train (a person in learning or art), nourish, support, or produce (plants or animals)”), frequentive of educere, past participle eductus (“to bring up, rear (a child, usually with reference to bodily nurture or suppor, while educare refers more frequently to the mind)”) e (“out”) + ducere (“to lead, draw”)