educate

Meanings

Verb

give an education to
- "We must educate our youngsters better"
create by training and teaching
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
To instruct or train.

Adj

educated

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English educaten, from educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin ēducātus, the perfect passive participle of ēducō (“(of a child, physically or mentally) to bring up, train, nourish; (of a person in learning or art) to rear, educate, train; (plants or animals) to nourish, support, or produce”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from an intensive/frequentative formed on ēducō (“lead out, draw out; to raise up, erect”) + -ō.

Synonyms

civilise, civilize, cultivate, develop, instruct, prepare, school, teach, train

Antonyms

ignorize

Scrabble Score: 10

educate is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
educate is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
educate is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

educate is a valid Words With Friends word