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coeducate

coeducate is the alternative spelling of co-educate.

Meaning of co-educate

Verb

co-educate (third-person singular simple present co-educates, present participle co-educating, simple past and past participle co-educated)

  1. To educate children of both sexes together.
    • Fiercely academic and successful, these schools, arguably, had resisted the 'egalitarian' impulse to co-educate and were providing a space where girls could aspire to be doctors, mathematicians and politicians.2005, Chris Gaine, Rosalyn George, Gender, 'Race' and Class in Schooling: A New Introduction, page 132

Forms of coeducate

third-person singular presentcoeducates
present participlecoeducating
past participlecoeducated
pastcoeducated

Questions about coeducate

What is coeducate the alternative spelling of?
Coeducate is the alternative spelling of co-educate.

Words near coeducate in the dictionary

  1. coeditorships
  2. coedits
  3. Coedkernew
  4. Coedpenmaen
  5. coeds
  6. coeducate
  7. coeducated
  8. coeducates
  9. coeducating
  10. coeducation
  11. coeducational

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