Meaning of LETTERED
| Pronunciation: | | 'leturd
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- [adj] highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
- [adj] able to read and write well
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| | Synonyms: | | educated, enlightened, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, literate, well-educated, well-read |
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| | Definition: | | \Let"tered\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]rd), a.
1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. `` Are you not
lettered?'' --Shak.
The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid
of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman
birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their
forefathers. --Milman.
2. Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. `` A
lettered education.'' --Collier.
3. Inscribed or stamped with letters. --Addison.
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| | Related Terms: | | abecedarian, abstruse, allographic, alphabetic, capital, civilized, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, enlightened, erudite, graphemic, ideographic, knowledgeable, learned, lexigraphic, literal, literary, literate, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, pansophic, pictographic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, transliterated, uncial, upper-case, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise |
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