Definitions
Able to read and write, or well educated in a field.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English litterate, borrowed from Latin lītterātus, līterātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of literato and literatus.
Used in a sentence
“Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.”
“The reason literature plays a unique role in any literate culture is its longevity.”
“The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan even commissioned an alphabetic script for his empire, to be used officially for all its literate languages, Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic and Persian.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Well-read”8 letters
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