Main entry: nurture, breeding, bringing up, raising, rearing, fosterage, fostering, upbringing
Definition: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Usage: they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
Main entry: raising, rearing, nurture
Definition: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
Main entry: lift, raising, elevation
Definition: the event of something being raised upward
Usage: an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon; a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity
Main entry: raising
Definition: increasing in quantity or value
Usage: a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate