encourage
Meaning of encourage
verb
- To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
I encouraged him during his race.
- To spur on, strongly recommend.
We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- To foster, give help or patronage
The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed
Information about encourage
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of encourage is: encourages.
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Hyphenation of encourage
en-cour-age
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- encourage is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
encourage synonyms
Meaning promote:
promote, advance, boost, further
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encourage antonyms
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Translation of encourage
- French: encourager, favoriser
- Spanish: motivar, alentar, incentivar
- Portuguese: alentar, incentivar
- Italian: incoraggiare, motivare, incentivare
- German: ermutigen
Words that rhyme with encourage
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