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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun literate has 1 sense
- literate(n = noun.person) literate person - a person who can read and write; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
has particulars: alphabetiser, alphabetizer, reader, writer
Adjective literate has 3 senses
CIDE DICTIONARY
literate, a. [L. litteratus, literatus. See Letter.].
Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered. [1913 Webster]
"The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs."
[1913 Webster]
literate, n.
- One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. [1913 Webster]
- A literary man. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
literate, adj. & n.
--adj. able to read and write.
--n. a literate person.
--adj. able to read and write.
--n. a literate person.
Derivative
literately adv.
Etymology
ME f. L litteratus (as LETTER)
THESAURUS
literate
Brahmin, abstruse, 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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