Definition of Literate

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Literate

Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.

One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.

A literary man.

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Literate Quotations

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
Stephen Fry

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
Robertson Davies

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.
Ajay Devgan

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
Lucinda Williams

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
David Antin

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.
Mark Millar

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.
Katie Holmes

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
Judy Holliday

Literate Translations

literate in German is gebildet
literate in Spanish is instruido
literate in Swedish is bildad

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