Meaning of LITERATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'liturit
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- [n] a person who can read and write
- [adj] able to read and write
- [adj] able to read and write
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| | Synonyms: | | belletristic, educated, lettered, literary, literate person, well-written |
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| | Antonyms: | | illiterate | | |
| | See Also: | | alphabetiser, alphabetizer, human, individual, mortal, person, reader, somebody, someone, sophisticated, soul, writer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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