bring up

Questions about bring up

What does bring up mean?

bring up means "summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bring up?

Close synonyms include raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bring up a common word?

bring up is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.