bringing up

Questions about bringing up

What does bringing up mean?

bringing up means "helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community".

What is another word for bringing up?

Close synonyms include breeding, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising. 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 bringing up a common word?

bringing up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.