What does rearing mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. raising, rearing, nurturenoun

    the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

  2. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringingadjective

    helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

    "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

  3. rampant(ip), rearingadjective

    rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile

    "a lion rampant"

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  1. rearing

    Rearing generally refers to the process of raising, caring for, directing, or educating individuals or animals to maturity. It involves a combination of efforts, methods, and strategies used to guide growth, behavior and development. The term is often used in both human upbringing and animal farming contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rearing

    of Rear

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. rearing

    The upper-works tumbling home, or being wall-sided.

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Anagrams for rearing »

  1. angrier

  2. earring

  3. grainer

  4. rangier

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rearing in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rearing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rearing in a Sentence

  1. Alexander Meitiv:

    We feel we're being bullied into a point of view about child-rearing that we strongly disagree with.

  2. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy:

    I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  3. Marcelene Cox:

    Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

  4. Alessandro Rosina:

    In southern Europe, reciprocal help is an important value, for emotional and material reasons. Young people leave home later than their northern European contemporaries. They live close to their parents, so their parents can help with child-rearing and then they, in turn, take care of elderly parents. Because of COVID, this system is now in crisis.

  5. Craig Garfield:

    We now realize the transition to fatherhood is an important developmental life stage for men’s health, it’s a magical moment where so many things change in a man’s life. Now the medical field needs to think about how can we help these men of child-rearing age who often don’t come to the doctor’s office for themselves.

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