upbringing

upbringing
    n 1: properties acquired during a person's formative years
    2: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the
       community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more
       important" [syn: {breeding}, {bringing up}, {fostering},
       {fosterage}, {nurture}, {raising}, {rearing}, {upbringing}]
    

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "upbringing":
      apprenticeship, basic training, breaking, breeding, conditioning,
      cultivation, development, discipline, drill, drilling, education,
      exercise, fetching-up, fostering, grooming, housebreaking,
      improvement, in-service training, manual training,
      military training, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training,
      practice, preparation, raising, readying, rearing, rehearsal,
      sloyd, training, vocational education, vocational training