literate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin litteratus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
literate (comparative more literate, superlative most literate)
- Able to read and write; having literacy.
- Antonym: illiterate
- 1997, Carlin, George, Brain Droppings[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, LCCN 96-52373, OCLC 36084460, OL 26335012M, page 86:
- Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.
- Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
- 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.
- 2005, Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Harper:
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
able to read, having literacy
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knowledgeable in literature and writing
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Noun[edit]
literate (plural literates)
- A person who is able to read and write.
- (historical) A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.
Translations[edit]
one who can read
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Further reading[edit]
- literate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- literate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
literāte
References[edit]
- literate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)