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# upbringing

«upbringing» in Mova's school dictionary: **the way your parents or carers raised you as a child: how…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (upbringing, usually singular; an upbringing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your upbringing is the way your parents or carers raised you as a child: how they cared for you, taught you and what they believed was right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#m1)

2) Upbringing can also mean the place and conditions you grew up in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PSHE and ethics lessons it explains why people have different manners, beliefs and habits: a strict upbringing, a religious upbringing, a farm upbringing. In stories it tells the reader about a character's past. It also appears with foster care and adoption in lessons about families. Phrases: «a strict upbringing», «a happy upbringing», «a religious upbringing», «because of his upbringing».

### examples

- She had a happy upbringing on a farm in Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#x1)
- His strict upbringing taught him to be on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#x2)
- Children in foster care can still have a loving upbringing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#x3)
- Her upbringing in a big family made her good at sharing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#x4)
- They gave their children a religious upbringing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#x5)
- Your upbringing shapes you, but you can still make your own choices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#x6)
- He engaged a competent dragon to look after her, and also a respectable griffin whose birth and upbringing he knew all about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/#x7)

### note

Usually singular: «an upbringing», «her upbringing»; plural is rare. One word. Verb: «bring up» (to bring up a child). Not the same as «education», which is more about school learning.

### In the corpora

- [Some parents are cold or distant because of their own stress or upbringing; it is not the child's fault.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «upbringing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upbringing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.