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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
educated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an educated/informed guess (=a guess based on things that you know are correct)
▪ Stockbrokers try to make educated guesses as to which stocks will do well.
highly skilled/trained/educated
▪ She is a highly educated woman.
skilled/educated/flexible etc workforce
the educated class
▪ The educated classes shared certain values and experiences.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
▪ By the time she and the Prince were engaged two years later, she was still no better educated.
▪ They are better educated and more informed - though illiteracy is still widespread among the poor.
▪ He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena.
▪ Not so: the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades.
▪ It had to carry conviction with a better educated, more discriminating public.
▪ She was more attractive, better educated and more womanly.
▪ They were better educated and better paid.
highly
▪ Education Wordsworth was an intelligent and highly educated man: he was a learned, clever, even a witty poet.
▪ Instead there seems to be an increasing amount of discontent among people, especially the more highly educated sections of society.
▪ He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family, and correspondent of Gregory the Great.
▪ Childless men, especially those with a broken marriage, were more likely to be ambitious, highly educated professionals.
▪ Northern Ireland has a readily available and continuing supply of highly educated school-leavers and graduates essential to your company's growth.
▪ The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people.
▪ The level of sophistication required here is very great even for highly educated adults.
well
▪ He came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.
▪ More importantly, she would have met relatively well educated people.
▪ One of its tenets is that only well educated and professionally trained individuals have the competence to work with the mass media.
▪ These are the professional women, the graduates, the well educated or highly trained who can command full-time salaries.
■ NOUN
class
▪ They had little importance, however, outside a small minority of the educated classes.
guess
▪ Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.
▪ Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
▪ But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
▪ The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
man
▪ And this is not just a generalised and detached polemic against injustice by an educated man.
▪ Gifford was a former Royalist officer, an educated man who had himself experienced a fierce inward struggle in his puritan conversion.
▪ Will Simpson was one of the new breed of educated men.
▪ Today there are no longer any educated men in the old city.
▪ All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man, as Paul Alexandre proves.
▪ He was a cultured, educated man, yet he lacked the simple faith of the poorest of the poor.
▪ He was a well if conventionally educated man, and a man of various interests and hobbies.
people
▪ Further, when his influence on educated people is considered, there remain huge problems of discrimination.
▪ Less formally educated people can acquire professional competence.
▪ A society consisting of educated people, like a society of healthy people, made economic sense.
▪ More importantly, she would have met relatively well educated people.
▪ Your aim should be to speak as educated people you admire speak, clearly and without affectation.
▪ It came as a shock to Stella, learning that educated people like Dotty Blundell and Meredith adhered to such a faith.
▪ Even today, most educated people could probably tell you something about Voltaire and Rousseau.
▪ Many have demonstrated that professional competence can be acquired quite simply and successfully by less educated people.
person
▪ Among articulate and educated persons in 1860 these were a distinct minority.
▪ Only on this basis can people make the informed choice which is the hallmark of the educated person.
woman
▪ Pill use declined, especially among older educated women, from 45 million courses in 1977 to 38 million in 1979.
▪ Forty-eight percent of university educated women used the sheath compared to 27 percent of the rest.
▪ Finally, a small group visits Poopathy - the most educated woman in the area.
▪ Both concluded that the families of educated women were no smaller than the average.
▪ So it's the educated women who suffer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In general, children of educated parents tend to get better grades.
▪ The boy came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.
▪ You're smart, you're educated, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man, as Paul Alexandre proves.
▪ Among articulate and educated persons in 1860 these were a distinct minority.
▪ Darwin's Origin of Species was totally accessible to the educated laymen.
▪ Gifford was a former Royalist officer, an educated man who had himself experienced a fierce inward struggle in his puritan conversion.
▪ Less formally educated people can acquire professional competence.
▪ Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
▪ Romantic nationalism based on the demand for recognition of cultural identity was a sentiment which moved the educated middle classes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Educated

educate \ed"u*cate\ ([e^]d"[-u]*k[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Educated ([e^]d"[-u]*k[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Educating ([e^]d"[-u]*k[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. educatus, p. p. of educare to bring up a child physically or mentally, to educate, fr. educere to lead forth, bring up (a child). See Educe.] To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

Syn: To develop; instruct; teach; inform; enlighten; edify; bring up; train; breed; rear; discipline; indoctrinate.

Educated

Educated \Ed"u*ca`ted\, a. Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
educated

1660s, past participle adjective from educate (v.). As an abbreviated way to say well-educated, attested from 1855. Educated guess first attested 1954.

Wiktionary
educated

  1. Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree. v

  2. (en-past of: educate)

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WordNet
educated

  1. adj. possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) [ant: uneducated]

  2. having or based on relevant experience; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate" [syn: enlightened]

  3. adequately educated in the use of numerical terms and concepts especially in arithmetical operations

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Usage examples of "educated".

Nan was younger, Aborigines were considered sub-normal and not capable of being educated the way whites were.

But in the South, where Negro labor is plenty and agriculture is the chief occupation, the Negro will always have a practical monopoly, and his opportunities in all the trades in the North, as well as in the South, will increase in proportion as he becomes an educated, thrifty, law-abiding land-owner.

It is ultimately the dispute between morality and religion, which appears as an unsettled problem in the theses of the idealistic philosophers and in the whole spiritual conceptions then current among the educated, and which recurs in the contrast between the Apologetic and the Gnostic theology.

In Manhattan, Aunty Em was still a Branscomb, the educated daughter of a local dignitary.

It is the account of a term of penal servitude spent by a convict of the educated classes in a Siberian prison, based mainly on autobiographical material.

I took him to my room, and finding him tolerably well educated, I asked him how he came to be in such a state of destitution.

They stay celibate and they have to be highly educated and trained in things like philosophy and theology as well.

Old Conc might have educated them in the arts of primitive war, but both tribes observed strict prohibitions against theft.

His educated taste in Art was one of the things which went to make the Cosmopolis different from and superior to other New York hotels.

I have been told that he had wit, that he was well educated, and even in high spirits at times, but he could not get over his shyness, which gave him an almost indefinable air of stupidity.

If the educator be incompetent, the educated will be correspondingly lacking.

Born and educated in New York, he was an editor in Wisconsin, a merchant in Missouri, a miner on the Pacific slope, an editor in San Francisco, a member of the California Legislature, a delegate in the Constitutional Convention of Nevada, reporter of the Supreme Court of that State, elected to Congress--all before he was thirty years of age.

Every one really educated in science and philosophy, and familiar with the physiological conditions and literary history of mythology in the other nations of the world, will plainly perceive the intrinsic fancifulness and falsity of the belief, at the same time that he easily accounts for its rise and prevalence.

Somehow, he caught an image of Sura Noviwho was not a Speaker, not even a Second Foundationer, not even educated grimly at his side, playing a vital auxiliary role in the drama that was coming.

There were criticisms in it referring sometimes to dangerous ideas -- spoken even by a cardinal, in Holland or Belgium, he forgot which -- or written by a priest who had a Teutonic name which put Father Quixote in mind of Luther -- but he paid little attention to such criticisms, for it was very unlikely that he would have to defend the orthodoxy of the Church against the butcher, the baker, the garagist or even the restaurant keeper who was the most educated man in El Toboso except for the Mayor, and as the Mayor was believed by the bishop to be an atheist and a Communist, he could safely be ignored as far as the doctrine of the Church was concerned.