UPBRINGING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

Example:

they debated whether nature or nurture was more important

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("upbringing" is a kind of...):

acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)

Meaning:

Properties acquired during a person's formative years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("upbringing" is a kind of...):

heritage; inheritance (any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upbringing"):

breeding; education; training (the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior))

nurture; raising; rearing (the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child)