Educated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  educate \ed"u*cate\ ([e^]d"[-u]*k[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Educated} ([e^]d"[-u]*k[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Educating} ([e^]d"[-u]*k[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. educatus, p. p.
     of educare to bring up a child physically or mentally, to
     educate, fr. educere to lead forth, bring up (a child). See
     {Educe}.]


     To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop
     and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but
     more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to
     expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty,
     etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of;
     to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic
     instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to
     educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.
  
     Syn: To develop; instruct; teach; inform; enlighten; edify;
          bring up; train; breed; rear; discipline; indoctrinate.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Educated \Ed"u*ca`ted\, a.
     Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  educated
       adj 1: possessing an education (especially having more than average
              knowledge) [ant: {uneducated}]
       2: having or based on relevant experience; "an educated guess";
          "an enlightened electorate" [syn: {enlightened}]
       3: adequately educated in the use of numerical terms and
          concepts especially in arithmetical operations

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "educated":
     abreast of, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, au courant,
     autodidactic, beautified, bettered, briefed, civilized, converted,
     critical, cultivated, cultured, deep, developed, discerning,
     embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enlightened, enriched,
     erudite, improved, informed, instructed, knowledgeable, learned,
     lettered, literary, literate, pansophic, perfected, polished,
     polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, posted, primed, profound,
     refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, schooled,
     self-instructed, sensitive, studious, taught, trained,
     transfigured, transformed, up on, up-to-date, versed,
     well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise