educate

verb

ed·u·cate | \ ˈe-jə-ˌkāt

educated; educating

Definition of educate

transitive verb

1a : to provide schooling for chose to educate their children at home

b : to train by formal instruction and supervised practice especially in a skill, trade, or profession

2a : to develop mentally, morally, or aesthetically especially by instruction

b : to provide with information : inform educating themselves about changes in the industry

3 : to persuade or condition to feel, believe, or act in a desired way educate the public to support our position

intransitive verb

: to educate a person or thing

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teach, instruct, educate, train, discipline, school mean to cause to acquire knowledge or skill. teach applies to any manner of imparting information or skill so that others may learn. taught us a lot about our planet instruct suggests methodical or formal teaching. instructs raw recruits in military drill educate implies development of the mind. more things than formal schooling serve to educate a person train stresses instruction and drill with a specific end in view. trained foreign pilots to operate the new aircraft discipline implies training in habits of order and precision. a disciplined mind school implies training or disciplining especially in what is hard to master. schooled the horse in five gaits

Examples of educate in a Sentence

Parents trust schools to educate their children. The job of our public schools is to educate.

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Yet this is the truth not unveiled by the list: HBCUs are educating more of our poorest students than other institutions, particularly so in Alabama. — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al.com, "Johnson: Hidden (behind the) figures, grad rates don’t reveal full equation for HBCUs," 14 June 2019 Travel educates and bridges the gaps of understanding between different cultures and humanity. — National Geographic, "EXPLORE THE WORLD WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC," 12 June 2019 Why educate a public to reason and reflect, to base their thinking as citizens on some sense of history, when industry wants them to be trained to meet quite different needs, meanwhile flooding the labor pool with their kind and cheapening wages? — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, "Is Poverty Necessary?," 10 June 2019 To that end, the important thing to do is educate the public about HPV. — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, "Marcia Cross Says She's 'Grateful to Be Alive' to Watch Her Twins' Graduation After Anal Cancer," 9 June 2019 Nelson was educated in the Meriden Schools and also attended Goodwin Technical School. — courant.com, "Nelson E. Flanigan," 9 June 2019 In India, the jobless are often not the poorest, who cannot afford not to work, but the newly educated, qualified for better jobs that have yet to arrive. — The Economist, "In its second term, will India’s ruling coalition be bolder about reform?," 8 June 2019 The Arizona Black Rodeo in Phoenix, which began about 15 years ago, also educates the public about the black presence on the frontier. — Nadra Nittle, Vox, "Lil Nas X isn’t an anomaly — black people have always been a part of country music," 5 June 2019 As a result many young Africans were educated in Moscow. — János Besenyő, Quartz Africa, "Russia is vying to offer African countries a credible alternative to the US and China," 4 June 2019

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