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literate
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Word definitions for literate in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB barely ▪ Through it all Giap remained an intellectual, often aloof from his barely literate followers. ■ NOUN culture ▪ But in the matter of the relations between a general oral and a privileged literate culture ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Literate \Lit"er*ate\, n. One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. [Eng.] A literary man.
Usage examples of literate.
Department of Classical Mythology, your stimulating requirement from us of term papers on The Story of Your Life Thus Far, et cetera, all suggest that we are, if not a literate society, at least a society to which reading and writing are not unknown.
Christian communities, in the Roman world at large, texts were typically copied either by professional scribes or by literate slaves who were assigned to do such work within a household.
He says that 33 per cent of boys of school age had a rudimentary literacy, 12 per cent of girls, and that overall about 23 per cent of the inhabitants of Venice were literate by 1587.
Shong Lue Yang, a messianic Hmong leader who was not previously literate in any language.
In a matter of weeks, Wili progressed from being barely literate to having a fair command of technical written English.
And we have a small, extremely literate power elite -- the people who go into the Metaverse, basically -- who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.
He manages to be sentimental without being cloying, literate without overwriting, and passionate without a need for graphic detail.
Drawn from clerks, students, dissenting clergy, and from the propertied class, especially women, they were articulate and usually literate.
I was put in that class in order to correct what was considered a stigma and an obstacle to the process of Americanization, which the elementary-school teachers of that era were as much expected to further as they were to make us literate and numerate.
One estimate is that not more than 5 per cent of the population in classical Athens was literate in the sense that we use the word today, and not more than 10 per cent in Augustan Rome.
You have obviously chosen to ignore my dull-witted advice and go riding off to God only knows where in order to find some baseborn ruffian who cannot pen a literate sentence.
It was unfortunate for Eunice Parchman, and for them, that the people who employed her and in whose home she lived for nine months were peculiarly literate.
For it was then that the hieratically ordered city-state came into being, which stands at the source, and for millenniums stood as the model, of all higher, literate civilization whatsoever.
Coscripted by Christopher Isherwood, it takes enough liberties to almost qualify as a variation, but is wonderfully literate and contains some of the most beautiful photography that has ever graced a science fiction film.
Chief of Surgery Burgess, dying a slow, half-century death in this city where reading span is sorely stretched by the instructions on microwave popcorn, instantly imagines that in Kraft he has found a kindred literate spirit, a simile son.