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upbringing

[ uhp-bring-ing ]

noun

  1. the care and training of young children or a particular type of such care and training:

    His religious upbringing fitted him to be a missionary.



upbringing

/ ˈʌˌɪŋɪŋ /

noun

  1. the education of a person during his formative years Also calledbringing-up
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of upbringing1

First recorded in 1475–85; gerund of upbring “to rear children” (obsolete since the 16th century)
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She had a noble upbringing, was well fed and had loving parents.

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Any other policy that unfairly disadvantages people based on characteristics over which they have no meaningful control, such as their ethnicity, race, sex, gender, religious upbringing or native language, would rightly be deemed unacceptable.

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From a humble upbringing in south Texas, Mischer developed an interest in live television while studying at the University of Texas in Austin.

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Far from it: Nadel, a museum curator and comics expert, expresses palpable admiration for Crumb, and sympathy for a peripatetic upbringing that could quietly be as macabre as anything he drew.

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"Isn't his memoir called 'Hillbilly Elegy'?" wrote another user, a reference to Vance's book which detailed his upbringing in rural America.

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