co-educate

1. 1.

   educate persons of both sexes together

   Synonymscoeducate

   Broadereducate

Questions about co-educate

What does co-educate mean?

co-educate means "educate persons of both sexes together".

How many syllables are in co-educate?

co-educate has 4 syllables: co--e-du-cate. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for co-educate?

Close synonyms include coeducate. 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 co-educate a common word?

co-educate 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.