Definitions for educate
ˈɛdʒ ʊˌkeɪted·u·cate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. educateverb

   give an education to

   "We must educate our youngsters better"

2. train, develop, prepare, educateverb

   create by training and teaching

   "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"

3. educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civiliseverb

   teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

   "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. educateverb

   to instruct or train

2. Etymology: From educatus, past participle of educare, frequentive of educere, past participle eductus, from e + ducere

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To EDUCATEverb

   To breed; to bring up; to instruct youth.

   Etymology: educo, Latin.

   Their young succession all their cares employ;
   They breed, they brood, instruct and educate,
   And make provision for the future state. John Dryden, Virg. Georg.

   Education is worse, in proportion to the grandeur of the parents: if the whole world were under one monarch, the heir of that monarch would be the worst educated mortal since the creation. Jonathan Swift, on Modern Education.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. educate

   Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, non-formal, and informal education. Formal education takes place in education and training institutions, is usually structured by curricular aims and objectives, and learning is typically guided by a teacher. In most regions, formal education is compulsory up to a certain age and commonly divided into educational stages such as kindergarten, primary school and secondary school. Nonformal education occurs as addition or alternative to formal education. It may be structured according to educational arrangements, but in a more flexible manner, and usually takes place in community-based, workplace-based or civil society-based settings. Lastly, informal education occurs in daily life, in the family, any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational, whether unintentional or intentional. In practice there is a continuum from the highly formalized to the highly informalized, and informal learning can occur in all three settings. For instance, homeschooling can be classified as nonformal or informal, depending upon the structure. Regardless of setting, educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion, and directed research. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy. Education is supported by a variety of different philosophies, theories and empirical research agendas. There are movements for education reforms, such as for improving quality and efficiency of education towards relevance in students' lives and efficient problem solving in modern or future society at large, or for evidence-based education methodologies. A right to education has been recognized by some governments and the United Nations. For example, 24 January is the International Day of Education. At UN - level, several observance years and decades have been dedicated to education, such as 1970 International Education Year. Education is also one of the 17 Global Goals, where global initiatives aim at achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4, which promotes quality education for all.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Educateverb

   to bring /// 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 educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Educate

   ed′ū-kāt, v.t. to bring up children: to train: to teach: to cultivate any power.—adj. Ed′ucable.—n. Educā′tion, the bringing up or training, as of a child: instruction: strengthening of the powers of body or mind.—adj. Educā′tional.—adv. Educā′tionally.—n. Educā′tionist, one skilled in methods of educating or teaching: one who promotes education.—adj. Ed′ucative, of or pertaining to education: calculated to teach.—n. Ed′ucator. [L. educāre, -ātum—educĕre—e, out, ducĕre, to lead.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. educate

   To instruct, teach or train.

   They did want to educate their children, themselves and their parents.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 13, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'educate' in Verbs Frequency: #751

How to pronounce educate?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of educate in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of educate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of educate in a Sentence

1. Nancy Astor:

   Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

2. Emiliana Guereca:

   Get involved, i think one of the biggest issues and challenges we have is to put females in leadership positions, to elevate them, to run for office, to be in a positon where they educate and elevate more women. I think that is key.

3. Ernest Dimnet:

   Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

4. Siva Raj:

   It comes down to incompetence, the message we want to send is, if you don't do the job you are elected do — your primary responsibility is to educate our children — you're fired.

5. Melissa Jacobs:

   They had brought on an advisory committee and they went to educate players and especially men to stand up when they see something. And then that just went away.

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