Co-educate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To educate children of both sexes together.

    "Fiercely academic and successful, these schools, arguably, had resisted the 'egalitarian' impulse to co-educate and were providing a space where girls could aspire to be doctors, mathematicians and politicians."

  2. 2
    educate persons of both sexes together wordnet

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"Fiercely academic and successful, these schools, arguably, had resisted the 'egalitarian' impulse to co-educate and were providing a space where girls could aspire to be doctors, mathematicians and politicians."

Etymology

From co- + educate.

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