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Meaning of educate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  educate
      v 1: 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" [syn: {train}, {develop}, {prepare}, {educate}]
      3: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment;
         "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She
         is well schooled in poetry" [syn: {educate}, {school},
         {train}, {cultivate}, {civilize}, {civilise}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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