co-educate

verb

To educate children of both sexes together.

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Meanings

verbco-educate (third-person singular simple present co-educates, present participle co-educating, simple past and past participle co-educated)

present singular third person co-educates · participle present co-educating · participle past co-educated · past co-educated

  1. To educate children of both sexes together.

    Fiercely academic and successful, these schools, arguably, had resisted the 'egalitarian' impulse to co-educate and were providing a space where girls could aspire to be doctors, mathematicians and politicians.

    2005, Chris Gaine, Rosalyn George, Gender, 'Race' and Class in Schooling: A New Introduction, page 132

Synonyms & antonyms

verbeducate persons of both sexes together

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Origin

Translations

Welsh cydaddysgu
  • cydaddysguto instruct or train
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