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English verb: educate | |||
| 1. | educate (social) give an education to | ||
| Samples | We must educate our youngsters better. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | co-educate, coeducate, groom, prepare, school, socialise, socialize, train | ||
| 2. | educate (cognition) create by training and teaching | ||
| Samples | The old master is training world-class violinists. We develop the leaders for the future. | ||
| Synonyms | develop, prepare, train | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | instruct, learn, teach | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | drill, house-train, housebreak, retrain, toilet-train | ||
| Verb group | build up, develop, groom, prepare, prepare, train, train | ||
| 3. | educate (social) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | ||
| Samples | Cultivate your musical taste. Train your tastebuds. She is well schooled in poetry. | ||
| Synonyms | civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | down, fine-tune, polish, refine | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | sophisticate | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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