educate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   give an education to

   We must educate our youngsters better

2. 2
   verb

   To instruct or train.

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

3. 3
   verb

   create by training and teaching

4. 4
   verb

   teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

5. 5
   adj

   educated

Etymology

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.