edutain

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verb

To educate in an entertaining manner.

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Meanings

verbedutain (third-person singular simple present edutains, present participle edutaining, simple past and past participle edutained)

present singular third person edutains · participle present edutaining · participle past edutained · past edutained

  1. transitiveTo educate in an entertaining manner.

    Let Me "Edutain You...

    2005, Farrah Gray, Fran Harris., Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out, page 163
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    Voices whose work and whose expression of her work continues to inform and (in a phrase borrowed from Black performance poetry of the period) 'edutain'.

    2003, Jane De Gay, Lizbeth Goodman, Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women: Theory and Practice, page 89

    Edutain Me / The "risk" of Deep Springs is largely up to the students' shaping.

    2008, Yale Daily News, Yale Daily News Staff, The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2008, 34th edition, page 125

Origin

Back-formation from edutainment. In use in 1985.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

audient
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APA

edutain. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edutain

MLA

“edutain.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edutain. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “edutain,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edutain.

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