Definition: 1. Give an education to. 2. Create by training and teaching. 3. Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment.
Use 'educate' in a sentence:
1. The new finance minister was educated at Oxford and is as traditional as they come.
2. Legislation and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity.
3. It may be said that the teacher has done his very best to educate and help him.
4. Our children are being educated to be green in everything they do.
5. To educate the young generation in such a way is just like making the rice shoots grow by pulling them up.
6. A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen.
7. It takes patience to educate children.
8. Their children were educated privately.
9. She was educated in the US.
10. That is to educate ourselves.
11. He's an educated, widely-read man.
12. Drinkwise Day is mainly designed to educate people about the destructive effects of alcohol abuse.
13. It therefore presents an excellent opportunity not only to screen for HIV, but also to educate and advise about the dangers of the virus.
14. They were intelligent and educated, yet they chose to kidnap and kill.
15. Caitlin's parents opted to educate her intensively at home.
16. One effect of this realism was to educate the world about itself.
17. Parents have responsibility to educate their children.
18. Such opinions are unworthy of educated people.
19. People live longer nowadays, and they are better educated.
20. Why don't we educate more?
21. The Irish educate proportionately more young people to university level than the British.
22. First, we need to educate the public.
23. He spoke in an educated voice.
24. Have they become somehow massively more expensive to educate?
25. I think part of the problem is how we educate people to work in this field.
26. We need to re-educate ourselves by looking at the problem in a different way.
27. We are able to educate every child.
28. If we want to educate a future generation of great scientists, we can start by changing the way we talk about the great scientists of the past.
29. It's necessary to educate children to sort the garbage.
30. Its goals were to educate, share ideas and present Indiana's best products.
31. He was educated at public school.
32. He was educated at a co-ed comprehensive school.
33. What we must do is to provide the Pashtuns with protection and an environment in which they can send their children to school and educate them.
34. She was a very well educated girl with a lively mind, a girl with ambition.
35. Don't rely on the media to educate.
36. Four months later, Pania reluctantly but courageously decided to try to educate the public and to fight for laws to ban drivers from using cell phones while a car is moving.
37. For this purpose, our schools need both the talent and the organization to educate each child who arrives at the schoolhouse door.
38. My reaction is to say, we must educate people to use new technology now.
39. He is an educated, amiable and decent man.
40. Estimating the right cooking time will always be an educated guess.
41. He was educated at his local comprehensive school and then at Oxford.
42. He is more highly educated, with a PhD in Chemistry.
43. There is a thin dividing line between educating the public and creating a predisposition to panic.
44. The National Hydrogen Bomb Association hopes to educate people in the safe handling of this type of weapon.
45. Children need to be educated on the dangers of drug-taking.
46. Our priority is to educate people about the dangers of drugs.
47. She has very modern ideas about educating her children.
48. The object is to educate people about road safety.
49. What they wanted most from the president was a leader who at least would try to educate the country.
50. She was educated — after a fashion — at home.
51. He advocates streaming children, and educating them according to their needs.
52. The programme aims to educate and prepare students for a challenging career.
53. The campaign is intended to educate the public to respect the environment.
