well-read

English

Alternative forms

• well read

Pronunciation

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Adjective

well-read (comparative better-read or more well-read, superlative best-read or most well-read)

1. Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively.
   • 1965, Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man”, in Highway 61 Revisited:

     You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books / You are very well-read / It's well known

Translations

well informed and knowledgeable because of having read extensively

• Arabic: وَاسِع الاطلاع
• Azerbaijani: mütaliəli
• Catalan: lletrat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博覽群書的 / 博览群书的 (zh) (bólǎn qúnshū de)

• Czech: sečtělý (cs)
• Danish: belæst
• Dutch: belezen (nl)
• Finnish: lukenut (fi), oppinut (fi)
• French: lettré (fr) m
• German: belesen (de)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 多読の (たどくの, tadoku no)
• Latin: tinctus litteris
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: belest (no)

• Occitan: letrat (oc)
• Polish: oczytany (pl)
• Portuguese: versado (pt)
• Romanian: citit (ro)
• Russian: начи́танный (ru) (načítannyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на̏чита̄н

  Roman: nȁčitān (sh)

• Slovak: sčítaný m
• Spanish: leído (es)
• Swedish: beläst (sv)
• Turkish: aydın (tr)
• Ukrainian: начи́таний (načýtanyj)

See also

• book-read
• read up (adjectival form)

Anagrams

• wallered