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EDUCATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create by training and teaching

Example:

we develop the leaders for the future

Synonyms:

develop; educate; prepare; train

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "educate" is one way to...):

instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

Verb group:

build up; develop (change the use of and make available or usable)

prepare; train (undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession)

groom; prepare; train (educate for a future role or function)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "educate"):

retrain (teach new skills)

drill (train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons)

house-train; housebreak (train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house)

toilet-train (train (a small child) to use the toilet)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))

education (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)

education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

educative (resulting in education)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give an education to

Example:

We must educate our youngsters better

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "educate" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "educate"):

socialise; socialize (train for a social environment)

groom; prepare; train (educate for a future role or function)

co-educate; coeducate (educate persons of both sexes together)

school (educate in or as if in a school)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

educatee (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))

education (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)

Education (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979)

educative (resulting in education)

educator (someone who educates young people)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

Example:

She is well schooled in poetry

Synonyms:

civilise; civilize; cultivate; educate; school; train

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "educate" is one way to...):

down; fine-tune; polish; refine (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "educate"):

sophisticate (make less natural or innocent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

education (the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior))

Credits

 Context examples: 

The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) is a not-profit independent global organization that funds brain tumor research and provides the information patients need to make educated decisions about their health care.

(American Brain Tumor Association, NCI Thesaurus)

The activities of educating or instructing or teaching that are directed towards a patient or the general public.

(Patient or Public Education, NCI Thesaurus)

In educating the youth of both sexes, their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

‘No; but I was educated by a French family and understand that language only.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It urges countries to assess impacts, share antivenom technology, support research on new medical tools, and educate health workers about how to respond.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

The plan was that she should be brought up for educating others; the very few hundred pounds which she inherited from her father making independence impossible.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A doctor; a person who has been educated, trained, and licensed to practice the art and science of medicine; a practitioner of medicine, as contrasted with a surgeon.

(Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

She was certainly not a woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich, and excessively in love with his friend.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A few minutes later we were joined by a short, stout man whose olive face and coal-black hair proclaimed his Southern origin, though his speech was that of an educated Englishman.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)