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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
literate
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 shift is crucial.
people
▪ It could, for literate people, provide a more interesting presentation of fact and argument.
society
▪ In comparing oral and literate societies in terms of their education systems, for instance, she represents oral systems as decidedly inferior.
▪ A literate society is only as competent to face the dangers of the future as our definition of that adjective allows.
▪ In the ancient world, literate societies recorded their own history in written documents.
▪ The evidence from shrines, temples and churches erected to meet the needs of literate societies is even more decisive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Every student should be literate by the time he or she leaves primary school.
▪ Over the last hundred years, people have become healthier, more literate, and better educated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Either way, they do not need to tyrannize the literate newcomer.
▪ It is in this way that the apparent divide between literate and non-literate cultures simply disappears.
▪ It, too, wants people to be literate and complains that its offers to help have been ignored.
▪ Meanwhile, the emerging industrial factories needed workers who were at least literate and able to follow directions.
▪ Paper costs are high, but loss of literate readers is much higher.
▪ So administration would be within the competence of any literate person.
▪ Third World governments build roads which help farmers to market their produce and schools which create a literate and numerate workforce.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Literate

Literate \Lit"er*ate\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[asl]t), a. [L. litteratus, literatus. See Letter.] Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.

The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs.
--Landor.

Literate

Literate \Lit"er*ate\, n.

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

  2. A literary man.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
literate

"educated, instructed," early 15c., from Latin literatus/litteratus "educated, learned," literally "one who knows the letters," formed in imitation of Greek grammatikos from Latin littera/litera "letter" (see letter (n.1)).

Wiktionary
literate

a. 1 Able to read and write; having literacy. 2 Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read. 3 Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect). n. A person who is able to read and write

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WordNet
literate

  1. adj. able to read and write [ant: illiterate]

  2. able to read and write

  3. n. a person who can read and write [syn: literate person]

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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.