- To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to
develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but
more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand,
strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and
regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any
calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train;
to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.
Meaning of 'educate' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . educate
[ v]
Meaning (1): - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Example in sentence:
Cultivate your musical taste;
She is well schooled in poetry;
Train your tastebuds
Meaning (2): - create by training and teaching
Example in sentence:
The old master is training world-class violinists;