upbringing

Other forms of upbringing

plural

upbringings·

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 upbringing

What does upbringing mean?

upbringing means "properties acquired during a person's formative years". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in upbringing?

upbringing has 3 syllables: up-brin-ging. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌpˌbɹɪŋɪŋ/.

What is another word for upbringing?

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

upbringing 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 upbringing?

1 word rhymes with upbringing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.