Synonyms of upbringing

upbringing

noun

as in rearing

the way a child is raised; the care and teaching given to a child by parents or other people

—usually singular

My wife had a very sheltered upbringing.

His grandmother saw to his upbringing.

Related Words

• rearing
• parenting
• parenthood
• raising
• fatherhood
• paternity
• motherhood
• mothering
• fathering
• maternity
• caregiving
• caretaking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of upbringing

But all of it – her quest for perfection, the failure and her upbringing on the backside – helped forge in DeVaux a woman who comes to her non-traditional career nearly tailor-made to handle it. —Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 May 2026

Dybantsa’s upbringing and college choice would indicate otherwise. —Jason Jones, New York Times, 9 May 2026

Chalk it up to his upbringing as an only child in New Zealand, where his mother worked at a facility that rented film equipment for the country’s burgeoning film scene. —Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026

Grimm’s home is on the fictional Yancy Street, a tribute to Kirby’s own working-class upbringing on the Lower East Side’s Delancey Street. —Miriam Eve Mora, The Conversation, 7 May 2026