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upbringing
[ uhp-bring-ing ]
noun
- 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
- the education of a person during his formative years Also calledbringing-up
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of upbringing1
Example Sentences
As someone who is Latino, do you feel like your upbringing helped shape your career or have a hand in the roles that you’ve chosen?
In one scene the husband has ensnared his unsuspecting wife in a web of lies so extensive that she questions her very upbringing with her mother.
She had a noble upbringing, was well fed and had loving parents.
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.
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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