literate person
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- noun
- /ˈlɪtərɪt ˈpɜrsən/
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persona alfabetizada
- The CCSS provide a vision of a literate person in the twenty-first century and set clear expectations for literacy to be a shared responsibility across the school campus.
Examples
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My portfolio shows who I am as a literate person.
Academic text (1998) -
What is evident, however, is that both reports are from intelligent, articulate, literate people who show no sign of any general defect in the capacity to draw normal inferences from normal experience.
Academic text (1999) -
And after tomorrow, every literate person in this city is gonna know who we are.
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My mother, one of the most literate people I ever knew, died four years ago this spring.
Fiction book (1997) -
Thanks for posting this debate between two obviously concerned, passionate, and literate people.
Blog text (9) -
OK, so these two are topics that any scientifically literate person should know something about.
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The grading description, as shown, was quite simple and should have been understood by any literate person in minutes.
Academic text (1991) -
I'm sitting here wondering how I became the second fully literate person in my bloodline after my mother.
Blog text (23) -
If the software in the voting machines is open, then even though I can't read it, there are enough literate people in the community that will read it.
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Every literate person can easily understand the instructions on the package.
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How Literate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who can read and write' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'literate' (able to read and write) with 'person' (a human individual). This adjective+noun composition follows regular English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Literate person comes from a simple picture of a literate person holding a book and knowing the letters. That image shows someone who can read and write, so the phrase means 'a person who can read and write'.