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adj. Able to read and write.

adj. Knowledgeable or educated in a particular field or fields.

adj. Familiar with literature; literary.

adj. Well-written; polished: a literate essay.

n. One who can read and write.

n. A well-informed, educated person.

adj. Able to read and write; having literacy.

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

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

n. A person who is able to read and write

adj. Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.

n. One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.

n. A literary man.

Having a knowledge of letters; possessing education; instructed: opposed to illiterate.

Of or pertaining to letters; learned; literary.

Marked with short, angulated lines resembling letters: applied to the surfaces of shells and insects.

n. A man of letters; a learned or literary man.

n. An educated man who has not taken a university degree; especially, a candidate for holy orders who has not been educated at a university.

n. One who can read and write: opposed to illiterate.

n. a person who can read and write

adj. knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields

adj. versed in literature; dealing with literature

adj. able to read and write

"When it is said: ˜Every literate being is necessarily a human being™, the subject is not something that can be said per se of the predicate, but since ˜literate being™ is not separated from what belongs to a human being in itself, the sentence is conceded as necessary, though when a sentence is necessary in this way it is necessary per accidens."

educated    belletristic    literary   

ignoramus    illiterate   

literacy    letter    literature    literary    literal   

computer literate   

learned    lettered    literatus    terato    literati   

illiterate   

feasible    illiterate    civilised    knowledgeable    proficient