About The Word Literate
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Literate
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What's The Definition Of Literate?
[n] a person who can read and write
[adj] able to read and write [adj] able to read and write Synonyms | Synonyms for Literate: belletristic | educated | lettered | literary | literate person | well-written Related Terms | Find terms related to Literate: abstruse | Brahmin | brainworker | civilized | cultivated | cultured | deep | educated | egghead | encyclopedic | erudite | highbrow | intellect | intellectual | intellectualist | learned | lettered | mandarin | pansophic | polyhistoric | polymath | polymathic | profound | scholarly | scholastic | studious | thinker | white-collar intellectual | wise | wise man See Also | alphabetiser | alphabetizer | human | individual | mortal | person | reader | somebody | someone | sophisticated | soul | writer Literate In Webster's Dictionary \Lit"er*ate\, a. [L. litteratus, literatus. See
{Letter}.]
Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned;
lettered.
The literate now chose their emperor, as the military
chose theirs. --Landor.
\Lit"er*ate\, n. 1. One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. [Eng.] 2. A literary man. |
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