Usually means: Formation of character and behavior.
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  1. upbringing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. upbringing: Merriam-Webster
  3. upbringing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. upbringing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. upbringing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. upbringing: Vocabulary.com
  7. Upbringing, upbringing: Wordnik
  8. upbringing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. upbringing: Wiktionary
  10. upbringing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. upbringing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. upbringing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. upbringing: Dictionary.com
  14. upbringing: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. upbringing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. upbringing: Rhymezone
  17. upbringing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. upbringing: FreeDictionary.org
  19. upbringing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. upbringing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. upbringing: Legal dictionary

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  1. upbringing: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The traits acquired during one's childhood training
▸ noun:  The raising or training of a child.

Similar:
fostering, fosterage, rearing, nurture, raising, breeding, bringing up, training, gentlehood, cultivation, more...

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conservative, liberal, religious, secular, traditional, more...

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A Question of Upbringing, high upbringing, after upbringing, bad upbringing, good upbringing, more...

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religious, own, strict, catholic, early, good, proper, christian, moral, traditional, class

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Similar:
fostering, fosterage, rearing, nurture, raising, breeding, bringing up, training, gentlehood, cultivation, more...

Types:
conservative, liberal, religious, secular, traditional, more...

Phrases:
A Question of Upbringing, high upbringing, after upbringing, bad upbringing, good upbringing, more...

Adjectives:
religious, own, strict, catholic, early, good, proper, christian, moral, traditional, class

Colors:
    pastel pink,     baby blue,     soft yellow,     mint green,     lavender, more...



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