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literacy
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Word definitions for literacy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the ability to read 2 understanding of something (ex. computer literacy)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE adult ▪ If the goal is to attract adult nonreaders into literacy programs, we may wonder what results can be expected. ▪ These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Literacy \Lit"er*a*cy\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[.a]*s[y^]), n. State of being literate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1883, formed in English from literate + -cy . Illiteracy , however, dates back to 17c.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Literacy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published thrice annually by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the United Kingdom Literacy Association . The journal was established in 1967 as Reading and obtained its current name in 2004. It covers research on ...
Usage examples of literacy.
The acquisition of such literacy was arduous and was aided by encyclopaedic and other lists.
When they signed documents, they often added the names and positions of their fathers, which confirms that they were usually the sons of city governors, temple administrators, army officers, or priests: literacy was confined to scribes and administrators.
Probably, much public art was taken for granted: the mythological stories were well known, literacy was low, and so sculpture in particular would be a form of ever-present, pre-Herodotus history.
On the other hand, a religion of the book almost by definition promoted literacy and a respect for scholarship that stood them in good stead.
The existence of graffiti, and the fact that more or less average soldiers were able to write letters home, suggests that literacy extended well beyond senators and politicians.
In any case, to begin with, literacy may not have been seen as conferring the advantages that seem so obvious to us.
Finally, in considering the extent of literacy, we may note the wide range of backgrounds of Roman authors.
Rome, which affected learning and literacy, was the gradual disappearance of the scroll, in favour of the codex.
Cassiodorus also produced a book on spelling, which has generally been taken as proof that, in addition to the decline in Greek studies, there was at the same time a fall in Latin literacy as well.
It is likely that literacy reached these parts of the world with the arrival of Sanskrit.
The new project was very successful, encouraging literacy, and between 932 and 953 most of the existing literature was put into print.
Another was the rise of literacy and of speculative thought, as reflected in the new universities, Paris in particular.
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.
This literacy had an incalculable effect on the later fortunes of the Protestant north.
Though the growth of literacy represented considerable progress in a general sense, it also made it more difficult than ever for the Portuguese to keep to themselves the news of their momentous discoveries.