Literate

4 definitions found

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

  Literate \Lit"er*ate\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[asl]t), a. [L. litteratus,
     literatus. See {Letter}.]
     Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned;
     lettered.
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           The literate now chose their emperor, as the military
           chose theirs.                            --Landor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Literate \Lit"er*ate\, n.
     1. One educated, but not having taken a university degree;
        especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy
        orders. [Eng.]
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     2. A literary man.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  literate
       adj 1: able to read and write [ant: {illiterate}]
       2: able to read and write
       n : a person who can read and write [syn: {literate person}]

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

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "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