educate

Other forms of educate

past tense

educated·

present participle

educating·

third person

educates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about educate

What does educate mean?

educate means "give an education to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in educate?

educate has 3 syllables: ed-u-cate. The stress falls on "ed". In IPA it is /ˈɛdʒəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for educate?

Close synonyms include train, develop, prepare, school, train. 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 educate a common word?

educate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with educate?

34 words rhyme with educate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.