Synonyms of the word

rearing

• v. present participle of rear.
• n. Act of raising young.

acculturation

• n. A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one.
• n. A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that he/she inhabits, starting at birth.

breeding

• n. Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
• n. The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
• n. The act of copulation in animals.
• n. The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
• n. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
• n. Descent; pedigree; extraction.
• n. (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
• adj. Of, relating to or used for breeding.
• v. present participle of breed.

enculturation

• n. The process by which an individual adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture in which he or she is…

erect

• adj. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
• adj. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
• adj. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
• adj. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
• adj. Watchful; alert.
• adj. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
• v. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
• v. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
• v. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
• v. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
• v. (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
• v. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
• v. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

fosterage

• n. The act of fostering another's child as if it were one's own.
• n. The act of caring for another human being or animal.
• n. The condition of being the foster child.
• n. The act of promoting or encouraging something.

fostering

• v. present participle of foster.
• n. raising someone to be an accepted member of the community.
• n. encouragement; aiding the development of something.

nurture

• n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
• n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
• n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
• v. To nourish or nurse.
• v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

raising

• v. present participle of raise.
• n. Elevation.
• n. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
• n. Recruitment.
• n. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
• n. (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
• n. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering,…

rampant

• adj. (originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
• adj. (heraldry) Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
• adj. (architecture) Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments…
• adj. Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
• adj. Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.

socialisation

• n. Alternative spelling of socialization.

socialization

• n. (sociology, psychology) The process of learning how to live in a way acceptable to one's own society,…
• n. The act of interacting with others, of being social.
• n. Taking under government control as implementing socialism.

upbringing

• n. The traits acquired during one's childhood training.
• n. The raising or training of a child.

upright

• adj. Vertical; erect.
• adj. Greater in height than breadth.
• adj. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
• adj. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
• adv. in or into an upright position.
• n. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
• n. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic…
• n. (informal) An upright piano.
• n. Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
• v. (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

vertical

• adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular…
• adj. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular,…
• adj. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
• adj. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
• n. A vertex or zenith.
• n. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
• n. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
• n. A vertical component of a structure.
• n. (marketing) A vertical market.