literate

English

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Etymology

From Latin litteratus.

Adjective

literate (comparative more literate, superlative most literate)

1. Able to read and write; having literacy.
2. Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
3. Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
   • 2005, Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Harper:

     The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan even commissioned an alphabetic script for his empire, to be used officially for all its literate languages, Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic and Persian.

Antonyms

• illiterate

Derived terms

• computer literate

Related terms

• letter
• literal
• literacy
• literary
• literature

Translations

able to read, having literacy

Catalan: alfabet (ca) Czech: gramotný (cs) m. French: alphabète (fr) Kurdish: Sorani: خوێنده‌وار (ku) (xwéndewar)

Portuguese: letrado (pt), alfabetizado (pt) Scottish Gaelic: litearra (gd) Serbo-Croatian: pismen (sh) Spanish: alfabetizado (es), (dated) letrado (es), (colloquial) alfabeto (es)

knowledgeable in literature and writing

Catalan: lletrat (ca) Polish: oczytany (pl) m. Scottish Gaelic: litearra (gd)

Serbo-Croatian: načitan (sh), učen (sh) Spanish: letrado (es)

Noun

literate (plural literates)

1. A person who is able to read and write

External links

• literate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• literate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• laterite

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Latin

Adjective

literāte

1. vocative masculine singular of literātus