literate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able to read and write

   Able to read and write; having literacy.

   • Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.
2. 2

   Knowledgeable in literature, writing

   Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.

   • The reason literature plays a unique role in any literate culture is its longevity.
3. 3

   Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Able to understand and evaluate something.

      • I don’t have a college degree. I was never a standout student. And yet, I became financially literate—not just in my personal life, but in running a small company.
   2. 5

      A person who is able to read and write.

   3. 6

      A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree

      A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.

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