1. (verb)educate give an education to Synonyms: school, civilize, cultivate, develop, prepare, train, civilise
2. (verb)train, develop, prepare, educate create by training and teaching Synonyms: rail, rise, originate, coach, prepare, get, build up, civilise, cook, fix, develop, uprise, get up, gear up, organize, take, recrudesce, civilize, make, arise, spring up, modernize, grow, take aim, train, evolve, trail, groom, aim, explicate, direct, organise, produce, germinate, ready, set up, school, discipline, modernise, make grow, cultivate, break, condition, formulate, set, machinate, educate, devise, acquire, check
3. (verb)educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment Synonyms: aim, groom, educate, naturalise, cultivate, civilize, school, develop, discipline, take aim, rail, work, domesticate, check, coach, condition, direct, train, trail, take, naturalize, tame, civilise, crop, prepare
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'educate'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
1. educate To teach is simply to communicate knowledge; to instruct (originally, to build in or into, put in order) is to impart knowledge with special method and completeness; instruct has also an author Synonyms: teach, discipline, give instruction, inform, nurture, drill, give lessons, initiate, school, educate, inculcate, instill, train, enlighten, indoctrinate, instruct, tutor