educateed‧u‧cate /ˈedjʊkeɪt $ ˈedʒə-/ ●●○ verb [transitive] 
The Ormerod School educates handicapped children.be educated at something He was educated at Bristol University.GRAMMAR Educate is often passive in this meaning.► see thesaurus at teach2to give someone information about a particular subject, or to show them a better way to do somethingeducate somebody about/in/on something a campaign to educate teenagers about HIV
WORD ORIGINeducate
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin past participle of educare ‘to bring up, educate’VERB TABLE
educate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | educate |
| he, she, it | educates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | educated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have educated |
| he, she, it | has educated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had educated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will educate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have educated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am educating |
| he, she, it | is educating | |
| you, we, they | are educating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was educating |
| you, we, they | were educating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been educating |
| he, she, it | has been educating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been educating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be educating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been educating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Many of the women had been educated at the best universities abroad.
- We need to educate people so that they understand the importance of a good, healthy diet.
- What we're trying to do is to educate young people to be responsible citizens.
- Youngsters must be educated about the dangers of drugs.
- A school was established in the former dovecote, where local children as well as those of the family were educated.
- And young people need to be educated in new ways to be employable.
- He was educated at top school Ampleforth - not Eton as many believe.
- I was trying to educate the children and what we have done is actually in science, educated the staff.
- In this new economy, smart businesses rely on an educated workforce to thrive.
- Only a little more educated than his neighbors, he senses trouble.
- They had to be educated on both domestic and international competition.
THESAURUS
to give lessons in a school, college, or university: · I taught for a year in France.· He teaches physics at York University.
to teach in a college or university by giving talks to groups of students on a subject: · He lectures in engineering at a local college.
formal to teach someone how to do something, especially a particular practical skill: · He was instructing them how to use the computer system.· Staff are instructed in how to respond in the event of a fire.
to teach one student or a small group: · I found work tutoring Mexican students in English.
especially British English to give private lessons, especially so that someone can pass an important test: · He coaches students for their university entrance exams.
to teach a person or group of people in the particular skills or knowledge they need to do a job: · It will take at least a month to train the new assistant.
to teach someone over a long period, usually at school or university: · He was educated in England.· Her parents want to educate her at home.
informal to show someone how to do a job or task that they have just started doing: · Miss McGinley will show you the ropes and answer any questions you may have.
Longman Language Activatorto teach people how they should think or behave to teach someone, especially a child or young person, how to behave or what to believe: teach somebody to do something: · When I was young, children were taught to treat older people with respect.teach somebody (that): · Joe's mother taught him that he could do anything, if only he tried hard enough.teach somebody something: · Parents need to teach their children the difference between right and wrong.
to teach people, especially over a long period of time, about things that will be helpful to them in life: · We need to educate people so that they understand the importance of a good, healthy diet.educate somebody about something: · Youngsters must be educated about the dangers of drugs.educate somebody to do something: · What we're trying to do is to educate young people to be responsible citizens.
to teach your child or children how to behave or think as they grow up: bring somebody up to do something: · I was brought up to spend money carefully and save as much as I could.· Stan had been brought up to believe that a man should work to support his wife.bring somebody up in the belief/conviction/knowledge that: · Alison was brought up in the belief that she was in some way superior to other children.
British /instill American formal to teach someone a way of thinking or behaving, especially relating to morals, good manners, over a long period of time: · We aim to teach the children discipline and instil a sense of duty.instil something in/into somebody: · We have tried to instil good manners in our children from an early age.· She instilled tremendous enthusiasm into all her students.
to teach someone to believe something by continuously repeating it over a long period of time, especially when they are tired, weak, or confused, so that they accept it without questioning it: · Mrs Davis accused the cult of having brainwashed her daughter.brainwash somebody into doing something: · For years we've been brainwashed by advertising into buying more and more things that we don't need.
to make someone think or react in a particular way by influencing their attitudes or reactions over a long period of time: condition somebody to do something: · He was conditioned to obey his father at all times.condition somebody into doing something: · The people have been conditioned into thinking that anyone from outside their community represents a threat to them.
to teach someone to accept a particular set of religious or political beliefs, without allowing them to discuss it, doubt it, or consider other possible beliefs: · Some politically active teachers were accused of trying to indoctrinate their students.indoctrinate somebody into doing something: · Citizens were indoctrinated into believing that their leader was the source of all wisdom and goodness.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She is a highly educated woman.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· The educated classes shared certain values and experiences.
(=a guess based on things that you know are correct)· Stockbrokers try to make educated guesses as to which stocks will do well.
She is a highly educated woman.· Those households tend to be wealthier and better educated on average, making newspaper readers an attractive market for advertisers.· They are healthier, happier, safer, better educated and richer.· New entrants to the job market are considerably better educated than workers who are retiring.· His judgement is more balanced and he's better educated and better informed.· Consumers are getting younger and better educated.· But all of those actions require a much better educated and skilled work-force at the bottom.
· The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.· San Diegans also are highly educated, have current passports and subscribe to cable in large numbers.· Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be.· Franklin Roosevelt obviously benefited from his elite, highly educated upbringing.· She was highly educated and was good at crossword puzzles and so unlikely to make such an elementary error.· Some of them are very highly educated.· In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.· The arts tourist is more highly educated, more affluent, and stays longer than the average tourist.
· Others, often the less educated, believe they have no place in the country.· Losers were the youth and less educated.· First, on average, a better-educated person is likely to do the same job better than one who is less educated.
· When this school closed, he was educated privately at home.· He was educated privately and at Rossall, and went on to study architecture under a tutor at Cambridge.· He was educated privately in London, and as a young man studied art in Paris.· He was educated privately at academies in Margate.· She was privately educated, then went to Edinburgh University and passed part of the preliminary examination in medicine.· She was educated privately at Lissadell Court, the family estate in county Sligo, Ireland.· Jabelman was privately educated, and had nurtured his talent as a painter at art school.· More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton.
· Mme Keita probably earns less than I pay my watchman, yet she is skilled and well educated.· Few presidents and fewer speakers have been as well educated and as knowledgeable as Clinton and Gingrich.· The sort of people who live and work in Bonn are well educated and open-minded.· We were well educated and we worked hard.· Its large population is comparatively well educated.· But then, she appears to not be quite as well educated as she says she is, either.· She was well off, well educated, well connected, but she wasn't well.· In general, they were articulate and well educated.
NOUN· The parents take the responsibility of educating their children until they reach the stage of tribal education.· The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house.· On moving here Laura had crises of conscience about how best to educate her youngest child.· California has to spend nearly $ 2 billion a year educating undocumented children.· Cartoon capers Champion is a new comic which helps to educate newly diagnosed diabetic children about their condition.· Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children.· In choosing systems of educating deaf children with signs, it is attitude which has determined the choice.· Morgan Hill schools educate rural low-income children and children from middleand high-income neighborhoods.
· Confucianism was above all, in fact, the expression of a particular caste, the educated class known as mandarins.· The development of Confucianism was closely linked with the teaching of the educated classes.· But now the emerging educated middle class longed for a democratic government.
· We all need to be told we look good, so try to educate your family to support you in this way.· Parents therefore have a grave duty to educate the family in a critical use of the means of social communication.
· The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls.· She also gave up her profession to educate the girls.
· He was educated at Appleby grammar school and at eighteen was admitted to the Inner Temple.· He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster.
· When this school closed, he was educated privately at home.· Lambert said the state has estimated that 75, 000 Texas families are educating their children at home.· Cameron was educated at home in a remote farmhouse with his younger brother and sister by parents Val and Phil.· Taylor was educated at home and at a private day-school, and as apprentice to his father.· He was educated at home and in 1831 was apprenticed to Martin, Dixon & Co. of Liverpool.· Because of poor health he was educated at home before enrolling at Glasgow University to study humanities and classical languages.· Shortly after her birth the family moved to Clapham, south London, where she was educated at home.
· Next comes educating people in dioxin-contaminated areas about steps they can take to protect themselves.· I get tired of educating people.· We also educate young people in schools about the dangers of drug use.· It is about educating people about the true cost of crime and its overall effects, he said.· The back had its share of expensively educated people.· He was handsome and educated, so people thought he was a gentleman and trusted him.· Ours was a union of two educated people, a marriage freely chosen.
· Teachers are considered the experts in education and, until the current generation, were much better educated than the general population.· But the ability to pay for safety nets is just one of the social effects of having an educated population.· By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.
· Countryside rangers do everything from educating the public to planting trees and plants to heavy work like repairing pathways.
· Good schools would educate their pupils to be useful, practical, and self-motivated.· Johnny was not lazy, nor was the school failing to educate him decently: He had a learning disorder.· The Ormerod School educates handicapped children from Oxfordshire.· Underfunded and paralyzed by provincial bureaucracies, these old schools had failed to educate.· The task of the school is to educate and to influence the growing mind of the child through knowledge.· They expect the schools will educate their kids.· Morgan Hill schools educate rural low-income children and children from middleand high-income neighborhoods.· She loves the public school system that educates her 14-year-old daughter.
· The young Francis had been educated with the sons of the better class of tradesmen.· Unschooled himself, Tulliver wants to educate his son Tom, although his daughter Maggie is more acute.· Moua was part of the tiny Hmong intelligentsia, an educated son of a clan elder.
· A proclaimed concern for client groups - doctors exist to serve their patients, teachers to educate their students. 6.· And what made matters more complicated was that City College had chosen to educate precisely such students as these.· By courageously confronting the cultural dimensions of education, we can make the changes necessary to educate a multiracial student population.
· He was educated at the University of Leiden between 1747 and 1749, and then entered the family's banking business.
· The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.· Median income growth among educated women, especially those contributing to a two-income household, raised incomes along the upper end.· The demand was for a state-backed campaign to educate women and girls.· I come from a people who, even now, seriously distrust educated women, who value family loyalty.· What had those educated women in that church, many of them with responsible jobs in London, in common with that story?· This, combined with discrimination against women, meant that educated women were at a double disadvantage.
· He aims to halve unemployment to four percent by 2000 by spending about 10 billion kronor to educate and train workers.· New entrants to the job market are considerably better educated than workers who are retiring.· We live in a knowledge-based economy, in which educated workers bridle at commands and demand autonomy.· The cost of educating this group of workers will be enormous.
VERB· He was born and educated in Hartlepool, and has one daughter.
· Cartoon capers Champion is a new comic which helps to educate newly diagnosed diabetic children about their condition.· Another necessary step involves helping to educate those who are less interested and less likely to make an effort to educate themselves.
· Instead of television that at least attempts to inform, educate or entertain the innocent, National Lottery Live!· Television held the promise, eventually, of informing, educating, and engaging the entire electorate in unprecedented ways.· It will also inform, educate, surprise, inspire trust and show authority.
· Otherwise they risk losing the credibility needed to educate others.· We thought that was a pretty positive start, considering that they need to educate the market.· Many New Zealanders need educating about your antiquated laws, since the person you appoint as monarch automatically becomes our monarch too.· And young people need to be educated in new ways to be employable.· They need to be educated properly, and society desperately needs them as educated members.· Those kids need to be educated.· Jen needs to be educated, you know.· I need my relationship legalized, and I need the president to educate his public, not to come out against me.
· The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house.
· I was trying to educate the children and what we have done is actually in science, educated the staff.· I always got involved with clients and spent time trying to educate them about financial management.· We all need to be told we look good, so try to educate your family to support you in this way.· Governments everywhere have tried to educate voters about the dilemma of the tax burden and state spending.
WORD FAMILYnouneducationeducationalisteducationisteducatoradjectiveeducated ≠ uneducatededucationaleducable ≠ ineducableeducativeverbeducateadverbeducationally
1to teach a child at a school, college, or university: The Ormerod School educates handicapped children.be educated at something He was educated at Bristol University.GRAMMAR Educate is often passive in this meaning.► see thesaurus at teach2to give someone information about a particular subject, or to show them a better way to do somethingeducate somebody about/in/on something a campaign to educate teenagers about HIV