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UPBRINGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Example:
they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
Synonyms:
breeding; bringing up; fosterage; fostering; nurture; raising; rearing; upbringing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("upbringing" is a kind of...):
acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Properties acquired during a person's formative years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("upbringing" is a kind of...):
heritage; inheritance (any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upbringing"):
breeding; education; training (the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior))
nurture; raising; rearing (the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child)
