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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Literate \Lit"er*ate\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[asl]t), adjective [L. litteratus, literatus. See {Letter}.] Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.
The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs. --Landor.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Literate \Lit"er*ate\, noun
1. One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. [Eng.]
2. A literary man.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
literate
adjective
1: able to read and write [ant: {illiterate}]
2: able to read and write
noun: a person who can read and write [syn: {literate person}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "literate": 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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