Definitions for literate

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literate lit·er·ate

Spelling: [lit-er-it]

IPA: /ˈlɪt ər ɪt/

Literate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in literate (aeeilrtt).

Definitions for literate

noun

1. a person who can read and write.
2. a learned person.

adjective

1. able to read and write.
2. having or showing knowledge of literature, writing, etc.; literary; well-read.
3. characterized by skill, lucidity, polish, or the like:
4. having knowledge or skill in a specified field:
5. having an education; educated.

Origin of literate

1400-50; late Middle English Latin līterātus, litterātus learned, scholarly. See letter¹, -ate^1<

Examples for literate

Pointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.

Only 13 percent of women are literate (compared with almost 33 percent of men).

Expectation of high figures is an extension of literate expectations.

But only the literate imagination can bring them back to life.

People can participate in social life only if they are literate.

Students who were under the influence of literate reasoning had problems.

In fact, these means are freed from words and literate articulations.

Her humor was New York humor, layered and tangy with irony; chewy and Jewish and deadpan and literate.

But if they are then subjected to literate pettifogging, all this effort is to no avail.

That would be fascism—but the “eloquent” and literate cadena is freedom.