Upbringing

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  upbringing
       n 1: properties acquired during a person's formative years
       2: raising someone to be an accepted member of the community;
          "they debated whether nature or nurture was more
          important" [syn: {breeding}, {bringing up}, {fostering}, {fosterage},
           {nurture}, {raising}, {rearing}]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "upbringing":
     apprenticeship, basic training, breaking, breeding, conditioning,
     cultivation, development, discipline, drill, drilling, education,
     exercise, fetching-up, fostering, grooming, housebreaking,
     improvement, in-service training, manual training,
     military training, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training,
     practice, preparation, raising, readying, rearing, rehearsal,
     sloyd, training, vocational education, vocational training