Definition of Literate

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

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

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
John Cheever

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

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

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
Lynn Johnston

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

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
James Tobin

I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.
June Lockhart

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
J. M. Roberts

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!
Patty Murray

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Literate Translations

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

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