Literate

Definitions: Literate

Literate

Adjective

1. Able to read and write.

Noun

1. A person who can read and write.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "literate" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Synonym: Literate

Crosswords: Literate

Books

• The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know to Be Sexually Literate (reference)

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The German literate reversed this process with the profane French literature. (reference)

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Business

Its highly literate population enjoys some of the highest living standards in the region. (references)

Children

Burundi

Only 22 percent of women are literate compared to 46 percent of men. (references)

Angola

Only 42 percent of the population was literate, and the illiteracy rate for women is almost twice that of men. (references)

Sierra Leone

The average educational level for girls is markedly below that of boys, and only 6 percent of women are literate. (references)

Economic History

Poland

Poland is wholly literate. (references)

Switzerland

Almost all Swiss are literate. (references)

Comoros

About 57% of the population is literate. (references)

Political Economy

Sierra Leone

Per capita earnings have declined approximately two-thirds since 1970. Only an estimated 20 percent of adults are literate. (references)

Pakistan

Education, especially for women, is poor; only 33 percent of the population are judged literate, even using a very low standard. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

In 1999 an estimated 56 percent of the population of approximately 15.4 million was literate, but the rate among women (44 percent) is only two-thirds of the rate among men (66 percent). (references)

Political Rights

Ecuador

Voting is mandatory for literate citizens over 18 years of age and voluntary for illiterate citizens. (references)

Women

Senegal

Only 23 percent of women over 15 years of age are literate, while the rate for men over age 15 is 43 percent. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Adult literacy has risen to 73 percent; 65 percent of women are literate, compared with 86 percent of men; however, there are 15 percent fewer girls in primary schools than boys. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "literate": computer literate ♦ literate person ♦ literate programming ♦ make literate. Additional references.

Ending with "literate": computer-literate, non-literate, pre-literate.

Albanian

që di shkrim e këndim, njeri i shkolluar, i shkolluar (educated, enlightened, enlightening, lettered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متعلم (educate, educated, educative, taught), ‏مثقف (cultivated, cultured, educated, educative, enlightened, informative, instructive, intellectual, learned, polished, refined, scholar), ‏عرف القراءة والكتابة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

учен (academic, boffin, clerkly, erudite, learned, man of science, sage, savant, scholar, scholastic, scientist, student), грамотен човек, грамотен, образован човек (scholar), образован (accomplished, cultivated, cultured, educated, informed, lettered). (various references)

Chinese 

有文化修养. (various references)

Czech

gramotný. (various references)

Finnish

lukutaitoinen (able to read). (various references)

French

qui sait lire et écrire, instruit, cultivé (literatim), être capable de lire et écrire. (various references)

German

gebildet (cultivated, cultured, educated, erudite, gentlemanly, learned, polished, polite, refined, shaped, unprimitive, well bred, well read, well-informed). (various references)

Greek 

γραμματισμένοσ, εγγράματοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

יודע קרוא וכתוב. (various references)

Hungarian

tanult (acquired, be educated, educated, erudite, learned, learnt, lettered, studied), olvasott (read, well read). (various references)

Indonesian

melek (be awake, be aware of the world). (various references)

Italian

istruito (learned, lettered), colto (cultivated, cultured, learned, unprimitive, well educated, well read), che sa leggere e scrivere. (various references)

Korean 

학식이 있는. (various references)

Manx

lettyragh, focklymagh (literary). (various references)

Pig Latin

iteratelay

Portuguese

literato (author, writer), letrado (blue, bookman, clerk, clerkly, deep read, erudition, lettered, scholar), educado (educated, good, graceful, manners, polite, urbane, well educated, well mannered), alfabetizado. (various references)

Romanian

om cu ştiinţã de carte (scribe), cu carte, cu ştiinţã de carte. (various references)

Russian 

грамотный (clerkly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

literaran (well read), učenjak (gownsman, scholar, schoolmaster, school-master, scientist), pismen, pisac (author, pen, writer), obrazovan (educated, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, read), književnik, školovan (educated). (various references)

Spanish

letrado (counsel, lawyer, learned, lettered), alfabetizado. (various references)

Swedish

bildad (civilized, cultivated, cultured, educated, informed, well informed). (various references)

Thai

รู้หนังสือ, มีการศึกษา, มีความรอบรู้ในเรื่องเฉพาะ. (various references)

Turkish

yazınsal (literary), okur yazar kimse, okur yazar (lettered), okumuş (educated, enlightened, lettered, read, well read), edebi (literary), aydın (cultured, educated, egghead, enlightened, informed, intellectual, lettered, long-haired, luminary, read, well informed, well read), çok okumuş kimse, çok okumuş (deep read, deeply read, well read). (various references)

Turkmen 

sowatly. (various references)

Ukranian 

грамотний (lettered), освічений (accomplished, cultured, educated, enlightened, informed, luminous), письменна людина, письменний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người hay chữ người biết đọc, người học thức, có học; hay chữ biết đọc, biết viết (clerkly). (various references)

litera, literatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "literate": literately, literateness, literatenesses, literates. (additional references)

Words ending with "literate": aliterate, alliterate, antiliterate, illiterate, nonliterate, obliterate, postliterate, preliterate, semiliterate, subliterate, transliterate. (additional references)

Words containing "literate": aliterates, alliterated, alliterates, antiliterates, illiterately, illiterateness, illiteratenesses, illiterates, nonliterates, obliterated, obliterates, preliterates, semiliterates, transliterated, transliterates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Literate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hitlerite, Iltifat, lateritic, litera, literat, litotrite, litterati, lituratus, Luderitz. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laterite.

-1 letter: ariette, atelier, iterate, retitle, tertial.

-2 letters: attire, elater, latter, letter, litter, ratite, rattle, relate, retail, retial, retile, tailer, tilter.

-3 letters: aerie, alert, alter, arete, ariel, artel, atilt, eater, elate, elite, irate, laree, later, latte, liter, litre, ratel, relet, relit, retia, retie, taler, tater, telae, telia, terai, tetra, tiler, titer, title, titre, trail, trait.

+1 letter: aliterate, altimeter, elaterite, elutriate, laterites, literates, retaliate, statelier.

+2 letters: aliterates, alliterate, altimeters, earthliest, elaterites, elutriated, elutriates, flatteries, illiterate, literately, literature, littermate, obliterate, remittable, retaliated, retaliates, reticulate, retractile, stealthier, tolerative, trailerite, triathlete, tutelaries.

+3 letters: alliterated, alliterates, alternative, altimetries, centripetal, detrimental, dilatometer, ethereality, externality, extralities, illiterates, intercalate, interdental, interpolate, interrelate, iteratively, literatures, litterateur, littermates, nonliterate, obliterated, obliterates, preliterate, recultivate, restimulate, retaliative, reticulated, reticulates, subliterate, terrestrial, tetralogies, theoretical, therewithal, trailerites, triathletes.

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