literate
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2.5
- adjective
- /ˈlɪtərɪt/
:
alfabetizado
- Secondly, the newly elected party officials want to restrict party posts to literate Nigerians.
- become literate
- barely literate
- literate and nonliterate
In a non literate society, the knowledge is the memories of old people.
- In a non literate society, the knowledge is the memories of old people.
- OK, so these, the people who wrote the Bible were they were literate, but they were not literate in the modern scientific sense.
- And and then now he's wasn't doing, you know, very when you're writing, you have to be literate.
- You wouldn't write like that were it not for the fact that we live in a post literate era age.
- It makes people who don't write disdain screen writing because it be they become less and less literate.
Examples
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Whether we will admit it or not, American Indians have become a literate people.
Academic text (1991) -
Today, 86% of the population of Turkey is literate at a basic level.
Academic text (2015) -
But they also need to realize some of these parents are not very literate themselves.
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And after tomorrow, every literate person in this city is gonna know who we are.
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Until recently, few people in any population were literate or needed to be.
Academic text (1993) -
And he also found that towns were very much more literate than villages.
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When Kudra had finally become literate, it was French that she learned to read and write.
Fiction book (1990) -
Less than 30 percent of Pakistan's population is literate, and the figures for women are more abysmal.
Academic text (1991) -
He's really quite well-read, considering he's only been literate for a month now.
Fiction book (2001) -
In many countries, over 90% of the adults are literate, able to read and write at a basic level.
Antonyms
Compounds
How Literate
Surface Forms
Morphology
literate = liter + ate
The meaning ('able to read and write') is a predictable adjectival formation from the stem 'liter-' plus the suffix '-ate'; learners familiar with 'literacy', 'illiterate', or 'literature' can reasonably infer this sense.
Etymology
Literate comes from the Latin word littera 'letter', so it originally meant someone who knows the letters of the alphabet and can read and write.