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upbringing

/ˈʌpˌbrɪŋɪŋ/

upbringing noun: the traits acquired during one's childhood training.

Noun

upbringing (countable and uncountable, plural upbringings)

The traits acquired during one's childhood training
The raising or training of a child.
- Through her upbringing, Mildred's father had carefully programmed her to expect very little from life.

upbringing meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

upbringing in Hindi

upbringing, rearing: परवरिश parvariś

upbringing in Tamil

raising or training: வளர்ப்பு vaḷarppu

upbringing in Marathi

upbringing: संस्कार sauskār

upbringing in Urdu

raising or training: تَرْبِیت tarbiyat

More languagesFewer languages

upbringing in Bengali: পালন palon
upbringing in Malayalam: വളർത്തൽ, പോഷണം, ശിക്ഷണം
upbringing in Kannada: ಆರಯ್ಕೆ, ಸಾಕುವಿಕೆ, ಸಾಕಣೆ, ಲಾಲನೆ
upbringing in Punjabi: ਤਰਬੀਅਤ tarbīata, سانبھ sāṉbh, ਸਾਂਭ sāmbh
upbringing in Gujarati: કેળવણી keḷvaṇī
upbringing in Nepali: पालन-पोषण
upbringing in Tagalog: nakalakihan, nakagisnan
upbringing in Arabic: تَرْبِيَة tarbiya
upbringing in Persian: تربیت tarbiyat

Examples of upbringing in a sentence

Despite her proper upbringing, we found her manners to be terribly abrasive.
His life story goes the gamut, from poverty-stricken upbringing to colossal wealth.
Most kibei were not fluent in English because of their upbringing in Japan.

All 29 example sentences with upbringing

Forms of upbringing

plural	upbringings

Plural of upbringing: upbringings

Origin of upbringing

From Middle English upbringinge, equivalent to upbring + -ing.

Questions about upbringing

What does upbringing mean?: Upbringing means the traits acquired during one's childhood training.
What is upbringing in Hindi?: Upbringing in Hindi is परवरिश (parvariś). See Upbringing meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is upbringing?: Upbringing is a noun.
How do you pronounce upbringing?: Upbringing is pronounced /ˈʌpˌbrɪŋɪŋ/.
What is the plural of upbringing?: The plural of upbringing is upbringings.

Words near upbringing in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: upbringing (page history and authors); परवरिश (Hindi) (page history and authors); संस्कार (Marathi) (page history and authors); পালন (Bengali) (page history and authors); upbringing (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upbringing (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سانبھ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); કેળવણી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); upbringing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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