What does encourage mean?
Definitions for encourage
ɛnˈkɜr ɪdʒ, -ˈkʌr-en·cour·age
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word encourage.
Princeton's WordNet
promote, advance, boost, further, encourageverb
contribute to the progress or growth of
"I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"
encourageverb
inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
encourageverb
spur on
"His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife"
Wiktionary
encourageverb
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
I encouraged him during his race.
encourageverb
To spur on, strongly recommend.
We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
encourageverb
To foster, give help or patronage
The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed
Etymology: encoragen, from encoragier, from encoragier from "courage". Displaced native belden (from bieldan), bealden (from bealdian), herten (from hiertan), elnian.
Webster Dictionary
Encourageverb
to give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Encourage
en-kur′āj, v.t. to put courage in: to inspire with spirit or hope: to incite: to patronise: to cherish.—ns. Encour′agement, act of encouraging: that which encourages; Encour′ager,—p.adj. Encour′aging, giving ground to hope for success.—adv. Encour′agingly. [O. Fr. encoragier (Fr. encourager)—en, to make, corage, courage.]
Editors Contribution
encourage
Give support, motivation, confidence and positivity to each other.
Cheerleaders cheering a football game in the crowd
Submitted by JP03 on February 15, 2015encourage
Give support, motivation, confidence, optimism and positivity to each other.
We encourage each other to achieve knowing we are a united humanity working together with universal beings for the optimum health and shared prosperity of all animals, human beings and living organisms on planet earth.
Submitted by MaryC on April 1, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'encourage' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2056
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'encourage' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2187
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'encourage' in Verbs Frequency: #200
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of encourage in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of encourage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of encourage in a Sentence
People are scared right now, and the Bible has tons to say to us in moments just like this, the Bible Quarantine is our effort to encourage people not to waste these days binge-watching Netflix episodes, but rather to let them change us while we find ways to love our neighbor, and be the church.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder:
I encourage all Michiganders to... put safety first, especially while driving and heating their homes.
What's most important now is to protect jobs and help businesses survive the pandemic, we're not at a stage yet where we want to stimulate consumption and encourage people to travel a lot. Efforts to stimulate consumption should wait a bit more.
Nina McLemore boutiquesNina McLemore:
With Zoom and Skype, when you think about it, you're much more conscious of how that person looks because that's all you see, just them, i know a lot of our customers personally. I've been reaching out to encourage them to buy now, so that we have enough money to make payroll.
Making small changes in your diet can be really helpful for cancer prevention, for somebody already on a plant-based diet this study can help inform their choices about what to include in their meals, and for somebody who is eating more red meat this could encourage them to gradually cut back on that and add more fish and vegetables.
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Translations for encourage
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- شجع, التشجيعArabic
- окуражавам, насърчавам, поощрявамBulgarian
- povzbuditCzech
- anbefale, opmuntreDanish
- ermutigen, empfehlenGerman
- instigi, kuraĝigi, subteni, vigligiEsperanto
- animar, alentar, recomendarSpanish
- õhutama, julgustamaEstonian
- rohkaista, kannustaaFinnish
- encouragerFrench
- spreagIrish
- ראה בחיוב, המליץ, עודדHebrew
- प्रोत्साहित करनाHindi
- biztat, támogat, felbátorít, bátorít, buzdítHungarian
- incoraggiareItalian
- 勇気付けるJapanese
- 격려Korean
- adhortor, corrōborō, animo, hortor, excito, incitoLatin
- whakatītinaMāori
- bemoedigen, bevorderen, aanmoedigen, steunen, patronerenDutch
- oppmuntre, anbefaleNorwegian
- dopingować, popierać, wspieraćPolish
- encorajarPortuguese
- însufleți, încurajaRomanian
- поощрять, воодушевля́ть, поощря́ть, ободря́ть, поощри́ть, обо́дрить, воодушеви́тьRussian
- uppmuntraSwedish
- ஊக்குவிக்கTamil
- ప్రోత్సాహముTelugu
- cesaretlendirmek, teşvik etmekTurkish
- khuyến khíchVietnamese
- 鼓勵Chinese
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