| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, nourishment |
Synonyms: |
breeding, care, diet, discipline, edibles, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, rearing, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
Antonyms: |
deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feed, care for |
Synonyms: |
back, bolster, bring up, cherish, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, nurse, nursle, provide, raise, rear, school, support, sustain, tend, train, uphold |
Antonyms: |
deprive, ignore, neglect, starve |
| Main Entry: | bread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily food |
Synonyms: |
aliment, bed and board, comestibles, diet, fare, feed, grub, necessities, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, provender, provisions, shingle, staff of life, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals |
| Main Entry: | breeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation of person |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, raising, rearing, refinement, schooling, training, upbringing, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | bring up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise youngster |
Synonyms: |
breed, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, feed, form, foster, nourish, nurture, provide for, rear, school, support, teach, train |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tend to |
Synonyms: |
attend, baby sit, consider, foster, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, mind, mind the store, minister, mother, nurse, nurture, pay attention to, protect, provide for, ride herd on, sit, take pains, tend, treasure, wait on, watch, watch over |
Antonyms: |
disregard, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | cherish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care about deeply |
Synonyms: |
admire, adore, appreciate, apprize, care for, clasp, cleave to, cling to, coddle, comfort, cosset, cultivate, defend, dote on, embrace, encourage, enshrine, entertain, fancy, fondle, foster, guard, harbor, hold dear, hold in high esteem, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet, preserve, prize, revere, reverence, safeguard, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure, value, venerate, worship |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
Antonyms: |
abandon, denounce, forsake, not care, renounce |
| Main Entry: | cultivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enrich situation; give special attention |
Synonyms: |
advance, ameliorate, better, bolster, bring on, brownnose, butter up, cherish, civilize, court, develop, discipline, elevate, encourage, enrich, foster, further, get in with, get next to, get on good side of, improve, nourish, nurse, nurture, play up to, polish, promote, refine, run after, seek friendship, shine up to, suck up to, take pains with, train |
Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | edification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, education |
Synonyms: |
betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, irradiation, knowledge, learning, nurture, schooling, teaching, tuition, uplifting |
Antonyms: |
destruction, worsening |
| Main Entry: | educate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | teach information, experience |
Synonyms: |
brainwash*, brief, civilize, coach, cultivate, develop, discipline, drill, drum into, edify, enlighten, exercise, explain, foster, improve, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, let in on, mature, nurture, put hip, put through the grind, rear, school, show the ropes, train, tutor |
Antonyms: |
learn |