Educate Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Educate has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions

Verb

give an education to

"We must educate our youngsters better"

educate

create by training and teaching

"The old master is training world-class violinists"

"we develop the leaders for the future"

train develop prepare educate

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

"Cultivate your musical taste"

"Train your tastebuds"

"She is well schooled in poetry"

educate school train cultivate civilize civilise

to instruct or train

"The mentor dedicated her time to educate the young apprentice in the art of carpentry."

Example Sentences

"We must educate our youngsters better" verb

"The old master is training world-class violinists" verb

"we develop the leaders for the future" verb

"Cultivate your musical taste" verb

"Train your tastebuds" verb

"She is well schooled in poetry" verb

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, e..."

Rhyming Words

ate bate late gate kate date wate cate rate nate oate sate tate jate hate mate fate yate agate skate

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