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educate

edu·cate

UK/ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/ US/ˈɛd.jʊˌkeɪt/ fairly common

verb

1.

give an education to

  • “We must educate our youngsters better”
2.

create by training and teaching

  • “The old master is training world-class violinists”
  • “we develop the leaders for the future”
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3.

train to be discriminative in taste or judgment

  • “Cultivate your musical taste”
  • “Train your tastebuds”
  • “She is well schooled in poetry”
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Origin

From Middle English educaten, from educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin ēducātus, the perfect passive participle of ēducō (“(of a child, physically or mentally) to bring up, train, nourish; (of a person in learning or art) to rear, educate, train; (plants or animals) to nourish, support, or produce”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from an intensive/frequentative formed on ēducō (“lead out, draw out; to raise up, erect”) + -ō.

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