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OXFORD DICTIONARY
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literate

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

lit=er=ate

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun literate has 1 sense

literate(n = noun.person) literate person - a person who can read and write;

is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

has particulars: alphabetiser, alphabetizer, reader, writer

Adjective literate has 3 senses

literate(a = adj.all) - able to read and write;

Antonym:

illiterate

literate(a = adj.all) - versed in literature; dealing with literature;

Antonym:

illiterate

literate(s = adj.all) - knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields; "computer literate"

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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]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

literate, adj. & n.
--adj. able to read and write.
--n. a literate person.

Derivative

literately adv.

Etymology

ME f. L litteratus (as LETTER)

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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