Hyphenation of educate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word educate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of educate:

1.	Give an education to We must educate our youngsters better
2.	Create by training and teaching The old master is training world-class violinists We develop the leaders for the future
3.	Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment Cultivate your musical taste Train your tastebuds She is well schooled in poetry

Synonyms of educate:

verb	better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
verb	train, develop, prepare, teach, learn, instruct
verb	school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise, polish, refine, fine-tune, down

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.