educate

UK /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/ US /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/

verb 1adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

global, whole, young

VERB + EDUCATE

don't, helping, need, order, took, want, went, work

EDUCATE + NOUN

children, daughter, money, people, person, sons, tongue, village

PREP.

about, in, out, through

verb

To instruct or train.

Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.

adj

educated

verb — create by training and teaching

verb — teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.

Wiktionary

In the last analysis, methods don't educate children; people do.

Tatoeba · #30044

You must educate your tongue to distinguish good coffee from bad.

Tatoeba · #30088

There were few colleges to educate women.

Tatoeba · #267324

You will never know what she went through to educate her children.

Tatoeba · #313983

She took pains to educate her children.

Tatoeba · #313999

i Register

In some senses, educate is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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