Bring up meaning
Bring up is a phrasal verb with 4 meanings. One of them is to care for and educate a child throughout the years before adulthood.
- Past simple
- brought up
- Past participle
- brought up
- -ing form
- bringing up
What bring up means
raise a childB1
To care for and educate a child throughout the years before adulthood
She was brought up by her grandparents in a small coastal town.
3 more meanings of bring up are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With bring: bring back, bring about.
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, mess up, break up.
Common questions
What does bring up mean?
It has 4 meanings. One of them is to care for and educate a child throughout the years before adulthood. The other 3, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of bring up?
Brought up, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
