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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-read
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-read/widely-read
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Although Jack stopped his studies at 19, he was very well-read, especially in the classics.
▪ Charles was a well-read and highly educated man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal.
▪ Bridget Freemantle was probably a well-read woman and must have had an intellectual as well as personal influence over Mary Leapor.
▪ Charles grew up well-read, particularly in theology.
▪ David, exceptionally bright and personable, was probably as well-read on the game as any player I have known.
▪ Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was.
▪ Intelligent, well-read, unsentimental, unshockable, she had become the focus of Meg's life on the headland.
▪ Surrounded by the most dour cast of characters known to man, Paul Merton suddenly seems excessively articulate, intelligent and well-read.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Well-read

Well-read \Well"-read`\, a. Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
well-read

1590s, from well (adv.) + read (adj.).

Wiktionary
well-read

a. Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively. alt. Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively.

WordNet
well-read

  1. adj. well informed or deeply versed through reading; "respect for a well-read man"; "well-read in medieval history"

  2. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience" [syn: enlightened, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated]

Usage examples of "well-read".

He was no wantwit, like some she could name, but a well-read gentleman of superior understanding.

Whereas the priesthood of Jupiter was beyond all legal loopholes because it was older even than the Twelve Tables, as Pavo Caesar was certainly intelligent and well-read enough to know.

I also visited the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, a well-read and intelligent man, to whom I had been presented by Don Domingo Varnier, one of the gentlemen of the king's chamber, whom I had met at Mengs's house.

I also knew that the head of the press was a well-read man, and that the place abounded in good cheer and good society.

Vivacious without being cloyingly coquettish, well-educated and well-read but never pretentious, direct in her conversation without seeming either bold or opinionated, she was charming company.

Nearly all of them are well-read educated men, reasoners, philosophers, disciples of Diderot or of Rousseau, satisfied that absolute truth had been revealed by their masters, thoroughly imbued with the Encyclopédie[37] or the Contrat Social, the same as the Puritans formerly were with the Bible.

She'd been preparing for final exams and had carted along a well-read and annotated volume.

He opened it and tossed in his battered briefcase, which contained a box of 9mm ammunition, a yellow pad filled with his jottings, various memos on the Kwan Ang case and a well-read book of Goethe's poems.

He is a well-read officer, patient and good natured, with an empathy towards his job that makes him an ideal role model for anyone following in his footsteps in the Met.