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Semiliterate

Definitions: Semiliterate

Semiliterate

Adjective

1. Literate but poorly informed.

2. Barely able to read and write; "an semiliterate scrawl".

3. Able to read but not to write.

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

Date "semiliterate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Non-Fiction Usage: Semiliterate

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

China

According to official government statistics, 42 percent of persons in the TAR are illiterate or semiliterate. (references)

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

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Modern Translations: Semiliterate

Language Translations for "semiliterate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏شبه أمي. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

半文盲 . (various references)

   

French

  

semi-analphabète. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félig írástudatlan, félig analfabéta. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emiliteratesay

   

Russian 

  

малограмотный (half-educated, semi-literate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Semiliterate

Derivations

Words beginning with "semiliterate": semiliterates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Semiliterate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: semiliterates, similiter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Semiliterate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: altimetries.

-2 letters: altimeters, elaterites, reestimate, temerities.

-3 letters: altimeter, elaterite, laterites, literates, literatim, materiels, militates, misrelate, realities, remittals, statelier, streamlet, timeliest.

-4 letters: airtimes, alertest, ariettes, ateliers, earliest, eateries, emeritae, emeritas, emirates, emitters, eremites, estimate, imitates, iterates, lamister, laterite, leariest, leeriest, limiters, literate, literati, maltiest, maltster, marliest, marlites, martlets, materiel, mealiest, measlier, meatiest, metalise, metalist, metritis.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: semiliterates.

 

+3 letters: experimentalist, semiterrestrial.

 

+4 letters: experimentalists, radiotelemetries.

 

+5 letters: complementarities, impenetrabilities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Semiliterate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6D 69 6C 69 74 65 72 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    --    ..    .-..    ..    -    .    .-.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006D 0069 006C 0069 0074 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537179757875867184678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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