EDUCATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does educate mean?
• EDUCATE (verb)
The verb EDUCATE has 3 senses:
1. give an education to
2. create by training and teaching
3. train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Familiarity information: EDUCATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• EDUCATE (verb)
Meaning:
Give an education to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
We must educate our youngsters better
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 (prepare (someone) 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
Meaning:
Create by training and teaching
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
train; educate; prepare; develop
Context examples:
The old master is training world-class violinists / we develop the leaders for the future
Hypernyms (to "educate" is one way to...):
instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)
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
Meaning:
Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
civilize; civilise; school; cultivate; educate; train
Context examples:
Cultivate your musical taste / Train your tastebuds / She is well schooled in poetry
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
