BRINGING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bringing up mean? 

• BRINGING UP (noun)
  The noun BRINGING UP has 1 sense:

1. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

  Familiarity information: BRINGING UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRINGING UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breeding; bringing up; fosterage; fostering; nurture; raising; rearing; upbringing

Context example:

they debated whether nature or nurture was more important

Hypernyms ("bringing up" is a kind of...):

acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)

 Context examples 

The full moon of November 12 brings an emphasis on distant travel and/or international relationships and also immigration matters, bringing up such subjects as a green card, passport, visa, and customs rules.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Janet reporting it to be quite ready, I was taken up to it; kindly, but in some sort like a prisoner; my aunt going in front and Janet bringing up the rear.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Where's your respect for me, and your proper bringing up?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was fulfilling his duty as a citizen and bringing up a large family.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A weariness, arising probably, in great measure, from the same feelings which he had acknowledged in the morning, was peculiarly to be respected, and they went down their two dances together with such sober tranquillity as might satisfy any looker-on that Sir Thomas had been bringing up no wife for his younger son.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is not only that he feels sorrow, deep sorrow, for the dear, good man who has befriended him all his life, and now at the end has treated him like his own son and left him a fortune which to people of our modest bringing up is wealth beyond the dream of avarice, but Jonathan feels it on another account.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This time, Uranus, your ruler, will precisely square the new moon at an almost perfect 90-degree angle bringing up an obstacle or big change where you tear away from a situation or relationship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

What the waiter thought of such a strange little apparition coming in all alone, I don't know; but I can see him now, staring at me as I ate my dinner, and bringing up the other waiter to look.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I will come back to the topic of Mars in Scorpio later, but my point in bringing up Mars now is that Mars will move through Sagittarius, your tenth house of fame, honors, and achievement, from January 3 to February 16, and that is when you will get a second chance to advance your career.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)