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edutain

edutain verb: to educate in an entertaining manner.

Verb

edutain (third-person singular simple present edutains, present participle edutaining, simple past and past participle edutained)

  1. (transitive) To educate in an entertaining manner.
    • Voices whose work and whose expression of her work continues to inform and (in a phrase borrowed from Black performance poetry of the period) 'edutain'.2003, Jane De Gay, Lizbeth Goodman, Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women: Theory and Practice, page 89
    • Let Me "Edutain You...2005, Farrah Gray, Fran Harris., Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out, page 163

Forms of edutain

third-person singular presentedutains
present participleedutaining
past participleedutained
pastedutained

Origin of edutain

Back-formation from edutainment. In use in 1985.

Words formed from edutain

Questions about edutain

What does edutain mean?
Edutain means to educate in an entertaining manner.
What part of speech is edutain?
Edutain is a verb.
What is the past tense of edutain?
The past tense of edutain is edutained.

Words near edutain in the dictionary

  1. edunol
  2. edupunk
  3. Edusei
  4. eduspeak
  5. edut
  6. edutain
  7. edutained
  8. edutainer
  9. edutainers
  10. edutaining
  11. edutainment

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