| 单词 | educate |
| 释义 | educate (once / 65 pages) v To educate is to teach, train, or inform someone. Teachers educate students. If the word educate makes you think of children, you're not far off. It comes from the Latin word educare meaning to "bring up, rear.” In the 1500s, Shakespeare borrowed it to mean "schooling." These days, any time you're in a classroom listening to a lecture, reading a book, or speaking with a teacher, you're being educated. Teachers educate students all the way from preschool to graduate school. Almost any experience can educate if you learn from it. WORD FAMILYeducate: co-educate, coeducate, educated, educates, educating, education, educative, educator+/coeducate: coeducated/coeducational: coeducationally/educated: self-educated, undereducated, uneducated/education: coeducation, educational, educationalist, educationist, educations, self-education/educational: coeducational, educationally/educationalist: educationalists/educationist: educationists/educative: educatively/educator: educators USAGE EXAMPLESIt all adds up to higher costs to educate the students. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Obama administration appears intent on educating Americans about the Russian threat before it leaves office. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) He is educated, a leader, a world-class ultramarathoner and a traditional believer. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v give an education to We must educate our youngsters better Hypo|Hyper socialise, socialize train for a social environment groom, prepare, traineducate for a future role or function co-educate, coeducateeducate persons of both sexes together schooleducate in or as if in a school dispose, qualifymake fit or prepared home-schooleducate (one's children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 2v create by training and teaching Syn|Hypo|Hyper develop, prepare, train build up, develop change the use of and make available or usable prepare, trainundergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession groom, prepare, traineducate for a future role or function retrain teach new skills drilltrain in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons house-train, housebreaktrain (a pet) to live cleanly in a house toilet-traintrain (a small child) to use the toilet instruct, learn, teach impart skills or knowledge to 3v teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment Syn|Hypo|Hyper civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train sophisticate make less natural or innocent down, fine-tune, polish, refine improve or perfect by pruning or polishing |
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