literacy
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- noun
- /ˈlɪtərəsi/
:
alfabetización
- The school offers a program to improve adult literacy in the community.
- adult literacy
- adolescent literacy
- literacy skills
They were people who very much valued literacy, reading books.
- They were people who very much valued literacy, reading books.
- And her observation was that the kind of literacy that gets taught in Zimbabwe is rote.
- And then they judge their success over here by by literacy rates and school attendance.
- So again, before Europe, before the conversion means before literacy.
- It's going to mean access to something called a school education for your kid, literacy for old and young.
- And then after Roman comedy, there's no comedy because that's the dark Ages and there's no theater and there's no literacy and there's no playwrights.
- Whether you're some illiterate peasant, you can be brought to literacy and educated about, you know, the social policy and what's rational.
- They have no skills, they have no literacy, they have nothing.
- No one in our society can function without some basic literacy literacy skills.
- This is also related to the disappearance of lay literacy.
- And, and Uncle Hubert was the literacy guy.
- I think it'd be hard to say that's the case because I still think that the literacy gap is one that is is not really.
- One of them is literacy and the other is gender equality in low income countries.
Examples
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They had the highest literacy rate in the world.
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Literacy is at an all-time high.
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In my view, literacy is a human right.
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That is the increase in literacy in France.
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Is this the literacy class?
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- I just got offered an opportunity to do a literacy and writing program in Africa.
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I was absolutely stunned at the state of literacy in America.
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You could enrol on a training scheme, a basic literacy programme.
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Our literacy rate in Central Vatawi is 99 percent.
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Adult literacy amongst the proletariat has risen by 56 percent.
Antonyms
How Literate
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Surface Forms
Morphology
literacy = literate (transparent) = liter + acy
Built directly from the adjective 'literate' with the noun-forming suffix '-acy', yielding the state or quality of being literate.
Etymology
Literacy comes from the Latin root litera, which means 'letter' and is the same idea behind the English word letter. So literacy is the ability to 'read and write' — knowing the letters and how they make words.