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Literate

Literate Meaning & Definition
Literate Definition And Meaning

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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