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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
literate
    adj 1: able to read and write [ant: illiterate]
    2: versed in literature; dealing with literature [ant:
       illiterate]
    3: knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields;
       "computer literate"
    n 1: a person who can read and write [syn: literate, literate
         person]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Literate \Lit"er*ate\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[asl]t), a. [L. litteratus,
   literatus. See Letter.]
   Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned;
   lettered.
   [1913 Webster]

         The literate now chose their emperor, as the military
         chose theirs.                            --Landor.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Literate \Lit"er*ate\, n.
   1. One educated, but not having taken a university degree;
      especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy
      orders. [Eng.]
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A literary man.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Literate:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Brahmin, abstruse, brainworker, civilized, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, egghead, encyclopedic, erudite, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist, learned, lettered, mandarin, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, thinker, white-collar intellectual, wise, wise man
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