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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas M. Butler

Meaning of "half-educated" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-EDUCATED

half-educated play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-EDUCATED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Educated is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HALF-EDUCATED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-educated in the English dictionary

The definition of half-educated in the dictionary is not having benefited from a comprehensive education.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-EDUCATED

half-deck
half-deserted
half-digested
half-dollar
half-done
half-dozen
half-dressed
half-drowned
half-drunk
half-eaten
half-empty
half-English
half-fare
half-fill
half-filled
half-finished
half-forgotten
half-formed
half-forward
half-frame

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-EDUCATED

certificated
complicated
dedicated
dislocated
domesticated
educated
elasticated
estimated
fabricated
intoxicated
located
lubricated
medicated
plicated
prefabricated
sophisticated
syndicated
truncated
uncomplicated
uneducated
well-educated

Synonyms and antonyms of half-educated in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-educated» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-EDUCATED

Find out the translation of half-educated to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-educated from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-educated» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半教育
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

- media educada
570 millions of speakers

English

half-educated
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा शिक्षित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نصف تعليما
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

недоучка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meia- educado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ-শিক্ষিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

demi- instruits
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Setengah terdidik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

halbgebildet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハーフ教育を受けた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반 교육
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah sinau
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa giáo dục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை படித்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्ध-सुशिक्षित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yarım eğitimli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

half- istruiti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pół wykształconych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

недоучка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jumătate - educat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημι- μορφωμένων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- opgevoede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halv utbildade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halv utdannet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-educated

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-EDUCATED»

The term «half-educated» is normally little used and occupies the 147.302 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-EDUCATED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-educated

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QUOTES WITH «HALF-EDUCATED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word half-educated.
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Nicholas M. Butler
America is the best half-educated country in the world.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-EDUCATED»

Discover the use of half-educated in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-educated and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
tendency in males to No. 3 crimes among the ignorant is yi times the like tendency among the educated, and twice the like tendency among the half educated ; while among ignorant females this tendency is 5 times what it is among the ...
‎1860
2
Journal of the Dublin Statistical Society
tendency in males to No. 3 crimes among the ignorant is 3-2 times the like tendency among the educated, and twice the like tendency among the half educated ; while among ignorant females this tendency w 5 times what it is among the ...
‎1860
3
The Christian Examiner
It is because the world, even in this boasted age of light and refinement, is still but half educated, and half civilized. There may be no error in calling this age an educated and civilized age in comparison with others ; or in calling this community ...
‎1834
4
Christianity and Culture
In the contemporary world, in which the majority were half-educated and many not even a quarter-educated, and in which large fortunes and enormous power could be obtained by exploiting ignorance and appetite, there was a vast cultural  ...
T. S. Eliot, 2014
5
Notes towards the Definition of Culture
In the contemporary world, in which the majority were half-educated and many not even a quarter-educated, and in which large fortunes and enormous power could be obtained by exploiting ignorance and appetite, there was a vast cultural  ...
T. S. Eliot, 2014
6
The Christian Examiner and General Review
... we find the true reason, and the only reason, why the facts of history and observation speak so discouragingly on this subject. It is because the world, even in this boasted age of light and refinement, is still but half educated, and half civilized.
Francis Jenks, James Walker, William Ware, 1834
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Christian Examiner
It is because the world, even in this boasted age of light and refinement, is still but half educated, and half civilized. There may be no error in calling this age an educated and civilized age in comparison with others ; or in calling this community ...
‎1834
8
The Uncolonised Heart
In his judgement there was complicity between half-educated writers and willing publishers and the victims were half-educated readers who were no longer turning to the epics for moral sustenance, but reading this cheaply available trash  ...
Lou Ratté, 1995
9
Letter to ... Robert Peel, in answer to Thomas Campbell, ...
The gentleman by birth is half educated, when he is unacquainted with the necessary information accompanying the rank he holds. The tradesman is half educated, when he knows no more than would enable him to keep a farm ; and so on, ...
Thomas Campbell, 1826
10
Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation ...
®half-educated. African ̄ divorced fromtheirown civilization.51 While Darwinianclichés such as®survival of thefittest ̄can be foundin her writings, Tawse Jolliewas not a polygenicist. She regarded Africans aspart of general humanity whose ...
Ian Christopher Fletcher, Philippa Levine, Laura E. Nym Mayhall, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-EDUCATED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-educated is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rude health... summer scares
Far too many of them originate in the bowels of public-relations folk rather than in the grey matter of half-educated medics. Editors like to link an ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
2
Pettus: You can teach an old cat dog tricks
With my guidance and newfound expertise, gleaned from minutes of study and half-educated guesswork, and by throwing a lot of stuff at the ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jul 15»
3
The Face of God: Richard Rodriguez Sees It In ... You
Not to have read the Qur'an is to be half-educated right now. America is a religion. As a Christian, I'm not in complete synch with America. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
How Islamist Extremists Warp the Fatwa
... this is not how many in the Western world have come to identify the concept, thanks to statements issued by extremists who are half-educated ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
5
Death in Charleston: a Moderately Speculative Postmortem
His sensitive, half-educated mind could detect the unfairness of news stories cherry-picked to promote a perpetual black-victimhood/white-guilt ... «The Moderate Voice, Jun 15»
6
The varying degrees of lies
But whatever the insecurities of our leaders, the government must consider: Do we want half-educated people to preside over the destinies of ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»
7
How Traditional Piano Lessons Cripple Our Children
The gap between musical sound and the child's perception of it with time becomes a disaster in the human mind, and half-educated musicians ... «Pulse, Jun 15»
8
'Seductions of Appeasement': Why the World Has Gone to Hell
... the common denominator is the Obama administration's belief in a therapeutic view of human nature, and a strange half-educated notion that ... «PJ Media, Jun 15»
9
The Cultural Afterparty of Maidan
We were witness to an emotional activisation of half-educated and half-witted persons causing outbursts of cultural mythology. Issues of style ... «CounterPunch, May 15»
10
Donald Clarke in Cannes: High and low culture fight it out
Any half-educated person knows about the New Wave that transformed French cinema 50 years ago. At about the same time, British ... «Irish Times, May 15»

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