Educate

//ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To instruct or train. transitive

    "Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming."

  2. 2
    create by training and teaching wordnet
  3. 3
    give an education to wordnet
  4. 4
    teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    educated obsolete

Synonyms

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instructteachtrainacculturateadvanceameliorate

Example

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"In the last analysis, methods don't educate children; people do."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English educaten, from educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin ēducātus, the perfect passive participle of ēducō (“(of a child, physically or mentally) to bring up, train, nourish; (of a person in learning or art) to rear, educate, train; (plants or animals) to nourish, support, or produce”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from an intensive/frequentative formed on ēducō (“lead out, draw out; to raise up, erect”) + -ō.

Etymology 2

From Middle English educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten), borrowed from Latin ēducātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

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co-educateself-educate

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