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the way that your parents care for you and teach you to behave when you are growing up in English:

1. upbringing upbringing


I wouldn't call this a proper upbringing.
His behavior spoke volumes about his upbringing.
They differed with each other on the care and upbringing of their children.
He's had a liberal upbringing.
The children had had a harsh upbringing.
Our upbringing as children impacts on how we behave.
That little girl is so polite! She must have had a very good upbringing.
The important role of teachers in the upbringing and education of children.
a middle-class/religious upbringing
He had a strict (=surowy) upbringing.
Did you have a strict upbringing?
Is it right to say all the crimes he committed were simply the resultof his upbringing?
Born in 1965, Mr Carmichael had a traditional upbringing on a hill farm on the Inner Hebrides island of Islay.
he let his wife look after their upbringing
Each person's knowledge of how to bring up a child usually comes from their surroundings and their own upbringing.

English word "the way that your parents care for you and teach you to behave when you are growing up"(upbringing) occurs in sets:

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