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educate

/'/E//dZ//U/,k/eI/t/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

verb

  1. give an education to

    verb.social

    Examples
    We must educate our youngsters better.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. create by training and teaching

    verb.cognition

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  3. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

    verb.social

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  4. 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 <i>educate</i> a child; to <i>educate</i> the eye or the taste.

    verb

    Source: webster1913

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