1. upbringing

noun. ['ˈʌpˌbrɪŋɪŋ'] properties acquired during a person's formative years.

Rhymes with Upbringing

• bringing
• clanging
• clinging
• flinging
• ganging
• hanging
• haranguing
• mudslinging
• overhanging
• pinging
• prolonging
• ringing
• singing
• slinging
• springing
• stinging
• stringing
• swinging
• winging
• wringing

Sentences with upbringing

1. Noun, singular or mass
You can use this sentence to say something about how you feel about your upbringing.

Quotes about upbringing

1. I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
- Amy Chua

2. Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
- Simon Soloveychik

2. upbringing

noun. ['ˈʌpˌbrɪŋɪŋ'] helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.