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Definitions: Educate |
EducateVerb1. Give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better". 2. Create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists; "we develop the leaders for the future". 3. Train to be discriminative; as of taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "educate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Educate \Ed"u*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Educated; present participle verb or noun Educating.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EDUCATE | English | EnD-User Courses in information Access through communications TEchnology | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EducateSynonyms: civilise (v), civilize (v), cultivate (v), develop (v), prepare (v), school (v), train (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Teaching | Verb: teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten; (inform). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Educate |
| English words defined with "educate": college ♦ Educating, Erudiate ♦ Miseducate ♦ school, Sulpician ♦ To train, To train up ♦ university, Uptrain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "educate": Association of Lisp Users ♦ CCAP ♦ director of home economics, DIRECTOR, SAFETY COUNCIL ♦ HOME-SERVICE DIRECTOR ♦ Pan-Africanism, POLICE OFFICER, SAFETY INSTRUCTION ♦ SAFETY ENGINEER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Educate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (bring up, educate, rear, train). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Here at Itchy and Scratchy Land, we're just as concerned with violence as you are. That's why we're always careful to show the consequences of deadly mayhem, so that we may educate as well as horrify. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) No sir, to educate you. (The Black Hole; writing credit: Jeb Rosebrook; Bob Barbash) | |
Lyrics | I've tried to educate your childish heart ("Been It"; performing artist: The Cardigans) Maybe you could educate my mind ("Elevation"; performing artist: U2) | |
Clever | It takes more money to amuse today's children than it took to educate their parents. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | How to Educate a Wife (1924) Educate Your Attitude (1992) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | African American farmer Theodore Nesmith (L) talks with Ricky Morrow of USDA's Federal Crop Insurance program, and Vaughn Nesmith (R), as Latif Timmons looks on. Morrow was on this South Carolina farm as part of the outreach program to educate minority farmers about crop insurance programs.Credit: USDA. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | They who educate children well, are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. |
| Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. | |
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley | Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. |
George Eliot | Those who trust us educate us. |
James Russell Lowell | To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. |
Oscar Wilde | The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. |
Sir William Osler | The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. |
Theodore Roosevelt | To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | From him the world is peopled with his descendants, who are all born infants, weak and helpless, without knowledge or understanding: but to supply the defects of this imperfect state, till the improvement of growth and age hath removed them, Adam and Eve, and after them all parents were, by the law of nature, under an obligation to preserve, nourish, and educate the children they had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own maker, the Almighty, to whom they were to be accountable for them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Educate the public on sources of infection. (references) | |
New ways to educate health care workers and the public about TB prevention. (references) | ||
Also, we are discussing with sponsors ways to educate patients about the clinical trial process. (references) | ||
Business | Previously only the elite could afford to educate their children in this field. (references) | |
The necessary effort to educate consumers could result in an increase in sales of imported frozen foods. (references) | ||
An effort to educate consumers on the benefits of frozen food would have to be conducted by individual producers or distributors. (references) | ||
Children | El Salvador | The ISPM held meetings to educate citizens on how to reduce the overall level of violence in their communities. (references) |
Guatemala | The Government continued its program to train instructors to educate civil society groups and the public about children's rights. (references) | |
Paraguay | The Constitution protects certain children's rights and stipulates that parents and the State should care for, feed, educate, and support children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | The refugees in the camps are permitted to work, and the state and central governments pay to educate refugee children and provide limited welfare benefits. (references) |
China | Likewise, Buddhist-run private schools and orphanages in the central part of the country not only educate children, but also offer professional training courses to teenagers and young adults. (references) | |
China | Many Christian groups throughout the country have developed close ties with local officials, in some cases running schools to help educate children who otherwise would receive a substandard education and operating homes for the care of the aged. (references) | |
Economic History | Vietnam | The aim is not only to promote their merchandise, but also to educate both sellers and end-users. (references) |
China | China has already initiated training programs to educate government officials on China's WTO obligations. (references) | |
Mexico | Thus, U.S. companies must educate end-users about the utility of these applications in order to increase market share. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | The Police Federation conducts lectures to further educate policemen in citizens' rights. (references) |
Belize | The HRCB gained prominence through media reports about its workshops and seminars that educate citizens about human rights. (references) | |
Ghana | It continues to hold workshops to educate the public, traditional leaders, the police, and the military on human rights issues. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Colombia | Indigenous communities are free to educate their children in traditional dialects and in the observance of cultural and religious customs. (references) |
Mexico | The President created the sub-cabinet level Office for the Development of Indigenous Peoples led by Xochitl Galvez to complement the efforts of the National Indigenous Institute, the CNDH, and various NGO's, which operate programs to educate indigenous groups about their political and human rights. (references) | |
Minorities | Macedonia | One continuing dispute has been over the desire of parents who consider themselves Turkish to educate their children in Turkish despite the fact that they do not speak Turkish at home. (references) |
Political Economy | GUATEMALA | The Labor Ministry has a program to educate minors, their parents, and employers on the rights of minors in the labor market. (references) |
TURKEY | A public anti-piracy campaign was begun in 1998 and the government has made efforts to educate businesses, consumers, judges and prosecutors regarding the implications of its laws. (references) | |
Women | Egypt | A number of NGO's actively work to educate the public regarding the health hazards of the practice. (references) |
Worker Rights | Uzbekistan | There is no government program to educate or assist potential victims. (references) |
Peru | There are no programs to educate vulnerable groups about the dangers of trafficking or to assist victims. (references) | |
India | NHRC also advised the Government of West Bengal to make efforts to educate Muslims about child trafficking. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We must look to citizens and parents across the country to help educate the increasing numbers of American youth who are experimenting with drugs to the dangers of drug abuse. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Instant access to information will increase productivity, help educate our children, and provide better medical care and create jobs, I call on Congress this year to pass legislation to establish the information superhighway. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Educate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.88% of the time. "Educate" is used about 347 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85.88% | 298 | 16,826 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.95% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.88% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 347 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "educate": educate oneself ♦ re educate. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "educate": re-educate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
educate | 85 |
educate yourself | 28 |
educate key.com | 28 |
educate yourself.org | 15 |
educate the child | 13 |
educate yourself.com | 5 |
educate inc | 4 |
educate today | 4 |
educate kid | 4 |
educate following immediately need specification we | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "educate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | oplei (breed, bring, bring up, raise, teach). (various references) | |
Albanian | edukoj (breed, bring up, Foster, rear, urbanize), stërvit (break in, coach, discipline, drill, exercise, practise, train), shkolloj (enlighten, train), mësoj (acquire, attune, be educated, coach, condition, digest, enure, find, find out, get on to, get wind of, hear, illuminate, induct, instruct, inure, learn, school, study, teach, train). (various references) | |
Arabic | متعلم (educated, educative, literate, taught), هذب (chasten, civilize, cultivate, edify, elevate, file, geld, lop, perfect, polish, prune, refine, retouch, revise, shear off, sublimate, touch, touch up, trim), علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognizance, cognize, drill, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, profess, read, scholarship, school, science, standard, teach, tell, tick), أدب (chasten, correct, discipline, good manners, letters, literature, propriety, school, seemliness, urbanity), ثقف (be educated, civilize, edify, instruct), ربى (bred, breed, bring up, cradle, foster, invest, keep, nourish, nurse, nurture, raise, rear, school, sprout, tutor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развивам (cultivate, develop, do, evolve, make, pay out, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unreel, unroll, unswathe, unwind, unwrap, wind off, work up), тренирам (coach, drill, exercise, fit, form, practice, practise, train, work out), възпитавам (breed, bring up, cradle, discipline, train), образовам, изучавам (examine, explore, master, probe, read, read up, study). (various references) | |
Chinese | 教育 (Educated, Educating, Education, Educational, Educative, instructional, instructive, schooled, schooling). (various references) | |
Czech | vzdìlávat (edify, train), vychovávat (bring up, nurture, raise, train, tutor), poskytovat vzdìlání. (various references) | |
Danish | opdrage (breed, bring up, raise). (various references) | |
Dutch | kweken (breed, breeding, bring up, cultivate, grow, raise, training), grootbrengen (breed, bring up, raise), dresseren (break, breed, bring up, dressing, raise, tame, train). (various references) | |
Esperanto | eduki (breed, bring up, raise). (various references) | |
Faeroese | venja (breed, bring up, coach, exercise, practise, raise, tame, train), læra (breed, bring up, learn, raise, teach), ala upp (breed, bring up, coach, raise, tutor). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرهیختن , تعلیم دادن (Drill, Enlighten, Guide, Teach), تربیت کردن (Abet, Breed, Rear, Train), دانش اموختن . (various references) | |
Finnish | kasvattaa (breed, bring up, grow, raise, rear, to grow, to raise, to rear). (various references) | |
French | éduquer. (various references) | |
German | erziehen (breed, bring up, coach, raise, re educate, to bring up, to educate, train, tutor), ausbilden (cultivate, develop, discipline, drill, form, instruct, perfect, qualify, shape, to cultivate, to educate, train), unterrichten (inform, instruct, notify, school, take, taught, teach, teaching, to instruct, train), bilden (acquire, breed, bring up, civilize, constitute, construct, establish, fashion, form, make, make up, Mold, raise, refine, set up, shape, to frame, to pattern). (various references) | |
Greek | μορφώνω (shape, train), εκπαιδεύω (instruct, school, train). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לח ך (habituate, rear, teach, tutor), לח וך (bring up, coach, consecrate, dedicate, inaugurate, teach, train, tutor), ל""ריך (conduct, direct, guide, instruct, pilot, steer, tutor). (various references) | |
Hungarian | taníttat, oktat (edify, instruct, teach, to coach, to edify, to educate, to instruct, to school, train, tutor), nevel (bred, school, to breed, to discipline, to raise, to school), kitanít (to drum up, to prime, to put sy wise to sg). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ala upp (breed, bring up, raise). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengasuh (nurture, take care of), mendidik. (various references) | |
Italian | istruire (direct, give instructions to, instruct, schoolhouses, schools, teach, train), educare (breed, bring up, train). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 育て上'る (to educate, to raise, to rear, to train), 仕込む (to educate, to prepare, to stock, to teach, to train). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"む (to educate, to prepare, to stock, to teach, to train), そ てあ'る (to educate, to raise, to rear, to train). (various references) | |
Korean | 교육하십시". (various references) | |
Malay | didik ... mendidik (breed, bring up, raise). (various references) | |
Manx | ynsaghey (instruct, learn, master; training, pedagogy, teach, train, tutor), troggal seose (Assumption, Assumption Eccl., elate; elation, hold up), cur edjaghys da. (various references) | |
Norwegian | utdanne. (various references) | |
Papago | mashchamchuth (to educate). (various references) | |
Papiamen | eduká (breed, bring up, raise). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | educateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | educar (breed, bring up, civilize, coach, discipline, form, nurture, polish, raise, rear, school, tame, train, tutor). (various references) | |
Romanian | educa (breed, bring up, cultivate, enlighten, form, nurture, raise, school), creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax). (various references) | |
Russian | воспитывать (breed, bring up, rear), давать образование. (various references) | |
Scottish | tog (brew, build, distil, excite, lever, lift, raise, rear), oil (grief : is oil leam, it is an offence to me, pain, rear, vexation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vaspitati (bring up, raise), prosvetiti (edify, enlighten), prosvećivati (enlighten), obrazovati (form, school), školovati (school). (various references) | |
Spanish | formar (array, conceive, constitute, draw up, dress, fashion, form, form up, frame, lay, make up, Marshal, model, Mold, mould, parade, put together, shape, throw, throw in, train, train up, turn out), educar (breed, bring up, civilize, nurture, refine, train). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppfostra (breed, bring up, raise, rear), bilda (constitute, culture, erect, establish, form, Mold, mould, shape). (various references) | |
Thai | ให้การศึกษา. (various references) | |
Turkish | eğitmek (coach, condition, handle, school, teach, train), yetiştirmek (breed, bring up, coach, cradle, cultivate, discipline, farm, groom, grow, nurture, produce, raise, rear, rush, school, train, turn out), terbiye etmek (break in, bring up, chasten, discipline, edify, housebreak, manage, nurture, polish, rough, school, teach manners, train), okutmak (instruct, teach), öğrenim gördürmek. (various references) | |
Turkmen | terbiяelemek (bring up). (various references) | |
Ukranian | тренувати (coach, drill, practise), виховувати (breed, bring up, nurse, nurture, train), привчати (accustom, habituate, inure, school), давати освіту. (various references) | |
Welsh | addysgu (instruct, teach). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conformari, conformes, educa, educabit, educant, educas, educat, educate, educaverunt, educavi, educavit, educentur, educere, educes, educet, erodii, erudi, erudiar, erudiebant, erudiendum, erudiens, erudieris, erudieritis, erudierunt, erudiet, erudietur, erudimini, erudio, erudire, erudirem, erudiret, erudiri, erudisti, erudit, eruditae, eruditam, eruditi, eruditique, eruditis, erudito, eruditor, eruditorem, eruditores, eruditos, eruditum, eruditus, erudiunt, erudivi, erudivit, informare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oi patereV mh parorgizete ta tekna umwn all ektrefete auta en paideia kai nouqesia kuriou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et patres nolite ad iracundiam provocare filios vestros sed educate illos in disciplina et correptione Domini |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And, fadris, nyle ye terre youre sones to wraththe; but nurische ye hem in the teching and chastising of the Lord. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ye fathers move not youre children to wrath: but bringe the vp wt the norter and informacio of ye Lorde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 4 |
| Bulgarian | Защото нашата борба не е срещу кръв и плът, но срещу началствата, срещу властите, срещу духовните сили на нечестието в небесните места. |
| Cebuano | Ug kamong mga amahan, ayaw ninyo pagsuk-a ang inyong mga anak, kondili matutoon hinoon ninyo sila uban sa pagbansay ug pagpahamatngon gikan sa Ginoo. |
| Chinese | 們 作 父 親 的 、 不 要 惹 ' 女 的 氣 、 只 要 照 著 主 的 教 " ' 警 ' 、 養 育 他 們 。 |
| Croatian | A vi, oèevi, ne srdite djece svoje, nego ih odgajajte stegom i urazumljivanjem Gospodnjim! |
| Danish | Og I Fædre! opirrer ikke eders Børn, men opfostrer dem i Herrens Tugt og Formaning! |
| Dutch | En gij vaders, verwekt uw kinderen niet tot toorn, maar voedt hen op in de lering en vermaning des Heeren. |
| Finnish | Ja te isät, älkää kiihoittako lapsianne vihaan, vaan kasvattakaa heitä Herran kurissa ja nuhteessa. |
| French | Et vous, pères, n`irritez pas vos enfants, mais élevez-les en les corrigeant et en les instruisant selon le Seigneur. |
| German | Und ihr Väter, reizet eure Kinder nicht zum Zorn, sondern zieht sie auf in der Vermahnung zum HERRN. |
| Haitian Creole | Kanta nou menm, manman ak papa, pa aji ak timoun nou yo yon jan pou eksite yo. Men, ba yo bon levasyon, korije yo, pale ak yo dapre prensip Seyè a. |
| Hungarian | Ti is atyák ne ingereljétek gyermekeiteket, hanem neveljétek azokat az Úr tanítása és intése szerint. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Saudara-saudara yang menjadi ayah! Janganlah memperlakukan anak-anakmu sedemikian rupa sehingga mereka menjadi marah. Sebaliknya, besarkanlah mereka dengan tata tertib dan pengajaran Tuhan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hai segala bapa, jangan kamu menggusari anak-anakmu, melainkan peliharalah mereka itu dengan pengajaran yang sopan dan nasehat Tuhan. |
| Italian | E voi, padri, non inasprite i vostri figli, ma allevateli nell'educazione e nella disciplina del Signore. |
| Korean | 또 아 비 " 아 ! 너 희 자 녀 를 노 엽 게 하 지 말 오 직 주 의 교 양 과 훈 계 로 양 육 하 라 |
| Latvian | Arî jûs, tçvi, nekaitiniet savus bçrnus, bet audziniet viòus Kunga kârtîbâ un mâcîbâ! |
| Maori | Me koutou hoki, e nga matua, kei whakapataritari i a koutou tamariki kia riri; engari whakatupuria ake ratou i runga i te whakaako, i te whakatupato a te Ariki. |
| Modern Greek | Και οι πατερες, μη παροργιζετε τα τεκνα σας, αλλ' εκτρεφετε αυτα εν παιδεια Κυριου. |
| Norwegian | Og I fedre! egg ikke eders barn til vrede, men fostre dem op i Herrens tukt og formaning! |
| Portuguese | E vós, pais, não provoqueis ira vossos filhos, mas criai-os na disciplina e admoestação do Senhor. |
| Rumanian | Wi voi, pqrinyilor, nu kntqrktayi la mknie pe copiii vowtri, ci crewteyi -i, kn mustrarea wi knvqyqtura Domnului. |
| Russian | й ЧЩ, ПФ"Щ, ОЕ ТБЪ"ТБЦБКФЕ "ЕФЕК ЧБЫЙИ, ОП ЧПУ ЙФЩЧБКФЕ ЙИ Ч ХЮЕОЙЙ Й ОБУФБЧМЕОЙЙ зПУ П"ОЕН. |
| Shuar | Atumsha, uchirtintirmesha, Atumí uchiri ántrarum akajkairap. Antsu Yúsan shiir Enentáimtusarat tusarum ti pénker jintinkirum tsakatmartarum. |
| Spanish | Y vosotros, padres, no provoquéis a ira a vuestros hijos, sino criadlos en la disciplina y la instrucción del Señor. |
| Swahili | Nanyi akina baba, msiwachukize watoto wenu ila waleeni katika nidhamu na mafundisho ya Kikristo. |
| Swedish | Och I fäder, reten icke edra barn till vrede, utan fostren dem i Herrens tukt och förmaning. |
| Thai | ฝ่ายท่านผู้เป็นบิ"าอย่ายั่วบุตรของตนให้เกิ"โทสะ แต่จงอบรมบุตร"้วยการสั่งสอนและการตักเตือนตามหลักขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า |
| Ukrainian | А батьки, не дратуйте дітей своїх, а виховуйте їх в напоминанні й остереженні Божому! |
| Uma | Pai' koi' to tuama, neo' nipedahi nono ana' -ni. Pewili' -ra-dile, tudui' pai' paresai' -ra hante paresa' to ngkai Pue'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "educate": educated, educatedness, educatednesses, educates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "educate": miseducate, overeducate, reeducate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "educate": miseducated, miseducates, overeducated, overeducates, reeducated, reeducates, undereducated, uneducated. (additional references) | |
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"Educate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aducate, decate, docate, eddicate, edecate, edicat, edicate, edicatte, edjucate, edocate, Eduarte, eduate, educare, educat, educatic, eduicate, Euchaeta, eudamex. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "educate" (pronounced e"jukā't or e"jyuwkā't) |
| 5 | -j u k ā' t | reeducate. |
| 4 | -u k ā' t | abdicate, allocate, aluminosilicate, authenticate, communicate, complicate, dedicate, deprecate, domesticate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, extricate, fabricate, indicate, intoxicate, misallocate, pontificate, predicate, prognosticate, reciprocate, rededicate, replicate, suffocate. |
| 3 | -k ā' t | adjudicate, bifurcate, cheapskate, confiscate, implicate, inculcate, locate, lubricate, medicate, obfuscate, prefabricate, sophisticate, truncate. |
| 3 | -k ā' t | abdicate, adjudicate, allocate, aluminosilicate, authenticate, bifurcate, cheapskate, communicate, complicate, confiscate, dedicate, deprecate, domesticate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, extricate, fabricate, implicate, inculcate, indicate, intoxicate, locate, lubricate, medicate, misallocate, obfuscate, pontificate, predicate, prefabricate, prognosticate, reciprocate, rededicate, reeducate, replicate, sophisticate, suffocate, truncate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-t-u" | |
-2 letters: acted, acute, cadet, deuce, ducat, educe, educt, etude. | |
-3 letters: aced, cade, cate, cede, cete, cued, cute, dace, date, daut, deet, duce, duct, duet, tace, teed. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ate, cad, cat, cee, cud, cue, cut, dee, due, eat, eau, ecu, eta, tad, tae, tau, tea, ted, tee, uta. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, at, de, ed, et, ta, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-t-u" | |
+1 letter: abductee, cuneated, ecaudate, educated, educates. | |
+2 letters: abductees, coequated, deciduate, decussate, educative, elucidate, eructated, evacuated, fecundate, nucleated, peculated, reductase, reeducate, ulcerated, uncreated. | |
+3 letters: abducentes, accoutered, carbureted, cauterized, cofeatured, crenulated, decussated, decussates, edulcorate, ejaculated, elucidated, elucidates, enucleated, enunciated, exactitude, exculpated, fecundated, fecundates, mercurated, miseducate, outcapered, outcheated, outreached, pediculate, recaptured, reductases, reeducated, reeducates, reluctated, speculated, unaccented, unaccepted, unaffected, uncarpeted, undecadent, underacted, underreact, uneducated. | |
+4 letters: accentuated, binucleated, carburetted, caterwauled, counterbade, denticulate, edulcorated, edulcorates, effectuated, elucidative, elucubrated, emasculated, equivocated, exactitudes, excruciated, geniculated, miseducated, miseducates, operculated, outachieved, outpreached, overeducate, pediculates, pedunculate, quarterdeck, recuperated, reduplicate, reeducating, reeducation, reeducative, reticulated, revictualed, scutellated, traducement, unbracketed, unchartered, undecorated, undedicated, underactive, underreacts, unenchanted, unmedicated, vesiculated. | |
+5 letters: countenanced, counteracted, countertrade, creaturehood, denticulated, denunciative, deuteranopic, documentable, educatedness, educationese, encapsulated, gesticulated, inexactitude, multifaceted, nonnucleated, nucleotidase, overeducated, overeducates, pedunculated, precautioned, propaedeutic, quarterdecks, reacquainted, recalculated, recirculated, recultivated, reduplicated, reduplicates, reeducations, reinoculated, relubricated, resuscitated, revictualled, traducements, tuberculated, unaccredited, unaffectedly, uncelebrated, uncorrelated, uncovenanted, underreacted, undetectable, vermiculated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 64 75 63 61 74 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.. ..- -.-. .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E d u c a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0064 0075 0063 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39708769678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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