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encourage Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press: encourage/ɪnˈkʌrɪʤ/ ▶verb give support, confidence, or hope to. ■ help or stimulate the development of. – derivatives encouragement noun, encourager noun, encouraging adjective, encouragingly adverb. – origin ME: from Fr. encourager, from en- ‘in’ + corage ‘courage’. 'encourage' also found in these Oxford entries:
Forum discussions with the word(s) "encourage" in the title: Encourage Encourage encourage Encourage (on) encourage the development of research and development capacity. I encourage her to ensure that... (subjunctive tense?) I would encourage / I might encourage People encourage people to fight is called inciter? recommend, encourage, and advise she believe that it will encourage women to go into the science. support or encourage that encourages / that will encourage We need to encourage them to do their best(s) Look up "encourage" at Merriam-Webster Look up "encourage" at dictionary.com In other languages: Spanish | French | Italian | Portuguese | German | Russian | Polish | Romanian | Czech | Greek | Turkish | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Arabic |
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