Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to educate
Participle: educated
Gerund: educating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | educate |
| you | educate |
| he;she;it | educates |
| we | educate |
| you | educate |
| they | educate |
Perfect
| I | have educated |
| you | have educated |
| he;she;it | has educated |
| we | have educated |
| you | have educated |
| they | have educated |
Past
| I | educated |
| you | educated |
| he;she;it | educated |
| we | educated |
| you | educated |
| they | educated |
Pluperfect
| I | had educated |
| you | had educated |
| he;she;it | had educated |
| we | had educated |
| you | had educated |
| they | had educated |
Future
| I | will educate |
| you | will educate |
| he;she;it | will educate |
| we | will educate |
| you | will educate |
| they | will educate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have educated |
| you | will have educated |
| he;she;it | will have educated |
| we | will have educated |
| you | will have educated |
| they | will have educated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | educate |
| you | educate |
| he;she;it | educate |
| we | educate |
| you | educate |
| they | educate |
Perfect
| I | have educated |
| you | have educated |
| he;she;it | have educated |
| we | have educated |
| you | have educated |
| they | have educated |
Imperfect
| I | educated |
| you | educated |
| he;she;it | educated |
| we | educated |
| you | educated |
| they | educated |
Pluperfect
| I | had educated |
| you | had educated |
| he;she;it | had educated |
| we | had educated |
| you | had educated |
| they | had educated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would educate |
| you | would educate |
| he;she;it | would educate |
| we | would educate |
| you | would educate |
| they | would educate |
Perfect
| I | would have educated |
| you | would have educated |
| he;she;it | would have educated |
| we | would have educated |
| you | would have educated |
| they | would have educated |
Imperative
| you | educate |
| we | Let's educate |
| you | educate |
Verbs conjugated like 'educate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'educate'
adulate,
coeducate,
dedicate,
educamate,
educe,
edumacate,
eluate,
eluctate,
eluxate,
emulate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- teach
- manage, tutor, discipline, drill, indoctrinate, instruct, school, train
Antonyms
- teach
- learn, understand, mislead, withhold
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1447, from L.
educatus, pp. of
educere "bring up, rear, educate," related to
educere "bring out," from
ex- "out" +
ducere "to lead" (see duke). Meaning "provide schooling" is 1588.
Educationese "the jargon of school administrators" is from 1966;
educrat first attested 1968, usually pejorative, second element from bureaucrat (q.v.).
Educable is from 1845.
Educated guess first attested 1954.
2. 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.
Verbs referencing "educate"
Esperanto
eduki.
Sample Sentences
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[...] world. Many of the resident gentry in Boston and its neighbourhood, and I think I am not mistaken in adding, a large majority of those who are attached to the liberal professions there, have been educated at this same school. Whatever the defects of American universities may be, they disseminate no prejudices; rear no bigots; dig up the buried ashes of no old superstitions; never interpose between [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] more deserving person. There are a few children employed in these factories, but not many. The laws of the State forbid their working more than nine months in the year, and require that they be educated during the other three. For this purpose there are schools in Lowell; and there are churches and chapels of various persuasions, in which the young women may observe that form of worship in which [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] three. For this purpose there are schools in Lowell; and there are churches and chapels of various persuasions, in which the young women may observe that form of worship in which they have been educated.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ I think you slaveholders have an awful responsibility upon you, ” said Miss Ophelia. “ I wouldn't have it, for a thousand worlds. You ought to educate your slaves, and treat them like reasonable creatures,—like immortal creatures, that you 've got to stand before the bar of God with. That's my mind, ” said the good lady, breaking suddenly out with [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] Cultivation and refinement seem but to enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm; and it is the possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree, which renders an educated American one of the most endearing and most generous of friends. I never was so won upon, as by this class; never yielded up my full confidence and esteem so readily and pleasurably, as to them; [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and think our children will not be affected by that. Yet our laws positively and utterly forbid any efficient general educational system, and they do it wisely, too; for, just begin and thoroughly educate one generation, and the whole thing would be blown sky high. If we did not give them liberty, they would take it. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ For you to educate, to be sure, and train in the way she should go. I thought she was rather a funny specimen in the Jim Crow line. Here, Topsy, ” he added, giving a whistle, as a man would to call the attention of a [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ For you to educate—didn't I tell you ? You 're always preaching about educating. I thought I would make you a present of a fresh-caught specimen, and let you try your hand on her, and bring her up in the way she should go. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] nature. The consequence is, that my servants act like spoiled children; but I think that better than for us both to be brutalized together. You have talked a great deal about our responsibilities in educating, Cousin. I really wanted you to _try_ with one child, who is a specimen of thousands among us. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] ” said Alfred, “ we can see plainly enough that all men are _not_ born free, nor born equal; they are born anything else. For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug. It is the educated, the intelligent, the wealthy, the refined, who ought to have equal rights and not the canaille. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)