Reverse Dictionary: EDUCATE

ADJECTIVES
► ACADEMIAL relating to an educational institution or environment; concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship; educational, intellectual → 1755
► BOOK-LARED educated; learned → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► EDDICATE educated → 1818 Sc.
► EDDICATION education → 1838 Sc.
► EDUCABLE capable of being educated → 1845
► EDUCATE educated → 1818 Sc.
► EDUCATIONABLE capable of receiving education → 1859
► EDUCATIONAL due to or arising from education → 1652 obs.
► EDUCATIONARY concerned with education → 1879
► EDUCATORY that has an educating influence → 1845
► EIDICATION education → 1838 Sc.
► FAR-LEARNED well-educated, well-informed → 1875 Eng. dial.
► GROUNDLY thoroughly instructed or educated → 1548 obs.
► HEURISTIC pert. to heurism (see nouns) in education → L19
► LETTERED learned, literate, educated → 1303
► MAST-FED irregularly educated → 1912 Amer. dial.
► POLYTECHNIC giving instruction in various subjects, esp. technical and vocational ones; said of an educational institution → 1798
► POLYTECHNICAL giving instruction in various subjects, esp. technical and vocational ones; said of an educational institution → 1798
► SCHOOL-LARED educated → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► BOOKING education derived from books or schooling → 1974 Amer. dial.
► BOOK-LARE ► BOOK-LEAR education; knowledge gained from books → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BREEDING education; good breeding → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► EDGEMCATION education → 1833 Amer. dial.
► EDUMACATION education → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HEURISM the educational process or principle of training pupils to discover things for themselves → E20
► KISS-OFF COURSE an academic course requiring little or no study effort → 1968 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► KITTY an easy teacher or course → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► LAIR ► LARE learning, knowledge; education → 1790 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PAEDEUTICS ► PAIDEUTICS the science or art of education → 1864
► POLYTECH a school giving instruction in various technical subjects; later, an institution of higher education  that offers courses mainly in technical, scientific, and vocational subjects → 1900 chiefly colloq.
► POLYTECHNIC a school giving instruction in various technical subjects; later, an institution of higher education that offers courses mainly in technical, scientific, and vocational subjects → 1836
► POLYVERSITY an educational institution which combines features of a university and a polytechnic → 1970 chiefly Brit.
► SCHOOL-LARE education → 1895 Eng. dial.
► TIGHT good breeding; behaviour; bringing up, rearing, training, education → c888 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► EDUCATEE one who is subjected to the process of education → 1815
► HALF-SCHOLAR one who is imperfectly taught → 1895 obs. (Bk.)
► HIGHBROW a clever person; a highly intellectual or cultured person; a person with sophisticated taste; a snob; an educated person → 1898 orig. US
► MODERNIST a person who advocates the teaching of modern subjects, rather than the classical languages and literature → 1856 Brit. education usage
► MODERNIZER a person who advocates the teaching of modern subjects, rather than the classical languages and literature → 1889 Brit. education usage obs.
► MONTESSORIAN an advocate of practitioner of Montessori teaching methods (a child-centred educational system devised by Maria Montessori, which emphasizes the individual development of young children through free but guided play with apparatus designed to encourage curiosity and sense perception; hence generally, designating any non-traditional teaching method, system, etc., that seeks to develop natural interests and abilities in young children, esp. through experiential learning)  → 1934
► PERCY an educated man; an officer → 1961 military sl., derogatory

PHRASES
► DROOLIN’ WITH SCHOOLIN’ well-educated → 1947 Amer. sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
► BREED to educate, to train, to bring up → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► DROP SCIENCE to explain, to educate, to make sense → 1992 US sl.
► EDUCATIONIZE to subject to education → 1835
► ERUDIATE to instruct, to educate, to teach → 1895 obs.
► SCHOLAR to educate → 1833 Sc.