Verb: educate 'e-jû,keyt
- Give an education to
"We must educate our youngsters better"
- Create by training and teaching
"The old master is educating world-class violinists";
- train, develop, prepare
- Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
"She is well educated in poetry";
- school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise [Brit]
Derived forms: educating, educated, educates
Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, down [informal], fine-tune, improve, instruct, learn [archaic], meliorate, mend, polish, refine, teach
Encyclopedia: Educate