Definitions for literates

literates lit·er·ate

Spelling: [lit-er-it]
IPA: /ˈlɪt ər ɪt/

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

You can make 584 anagrams from letters in literates (aeeilrstt).

Definitions for literates

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 literates

1400-50; late Middle English Latin līterātus, litterātus learned, scholarly. See letter1, -ate1<

Examples for literates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Expectation of high figures is an extension of literate expectations.

Word Value for literates
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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