Synonyms: 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
Similar words: socialisation, socialization, enculturation, acculturation
Definition: the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
Usage: the socialization of children to the norms of their culture
Synonyms: raising, rearing, nurture
Definition: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
Similar words: upbringing
Definition: properties acquired during a person's formative years
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: rise, rising, ascension, ascent
Definition: a movement upward
Usage: they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon
Synonyms: raising
Definition: increasing in quantity or value
Usage: a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate