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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
Lance Henriksen

Meaning of "literate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LITERATE

From Latin litterātus learned.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LITERATE

literate  [ˈlɪtərɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LITERATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Literate can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LITERATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

literate

Literacy

Literacy is the ability to read and write. The inability to do so is called illiteracy or analphabetism. Visual literacy also includes the ability to understand visual forms of communication such as body language, pictures, maps, and video. Evolving definitions of literacy often include all the symbol systems relevant to a particular community. Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development. In a technological society, the concept of literacy is expanding to include the media and electronic text, in addition to alphabetic and number systems. These abilities vary in different social and cultural contexts according to need, demand and education. The primary sense of literacy still represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of the written or printed text. The key to all literacy is reading development, a progression of skills that begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and culminates in the deep understanding of text.

Definition of literate in the English dictionary

The first definition of literate in the dictionary is able to read and write. Other definition of literate is educated; learned. Literate is also a literate person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LITERATE


aliterate
eɪˈlɪtərɪt
Carteret
ˈkɑːtərɪt
collectorate
kəˈlɛktərɪt
directorate
dɪˈrɛktərɪt
doctorate
ˈdɒktərɪt
electorate
ɪˈlɛktərɪt
illiterate
ɪˈlɪtərɪt
inspectorate
ɪnˈspɛktərɪt
inveterate
ɪnˈvɛtərɪt
lectorate
ˈlɛktərɪt
masterate
ˈmɑːstərɪt
nonliterate
ˌnɒnˈlɪtərɪt
pastorate
ˈpɑːstərɪt
preceptorate
prɪˈsɛptərɪt
preliterate
priːˈlɪtərɪt
presbyterate
prɛzˈbɪtərɪt
preterit
ˈprɛtərɪt
preterite
ˈprɛtərɪt
protectorate
prəˈtɛktərɪt
semiliterate
ˌsɛmɪˈlɪtərɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LITERATE

literalness
literarily
literariness
literary
literary agency
literary agent
literary critic
literary criticism
literary editor
literary remains
literary theory
literaryism
literately
literateness
literati
literatim
literation
literator
literature
literatured

WORDS THAT END LIKE LITERATE

accelerate
accurate
confederate
conglomerate
considerate
cooperate
degenerate
deliberate
desperate
enterate
enumerate
generate
liberate
moderate
operate
proliferate
refrigerate
regenerate
reiterate
temperate
tolerate

Synonyms and antonyms of literate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LITERATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «literate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of literate

Translation of «literate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LITERATE

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

Translator English - Chinese

能读会写的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

culto
570 millions of speakers

English

literate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साक्षर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القراءة والكتابة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грамотными
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alfabetizado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাক্ষর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

qui sait lire et écrire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Celik huruf
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gebildet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

読み書きができる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

글을 읽고 쓸 줄 아는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Literate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

biết chư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கல்வியறிவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

साक्षर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

okur yazar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

che sa leggere e scrivere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

literat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

грамотними
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

știință de carte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εγγράμματοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geletterd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of literate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERATE»

The term «literate» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.715 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «literate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «literate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about literate

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10 QUOTES WITH «LITERATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word literate.
1
David Antin
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
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Tim Cahill
'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside, I was pegged to work on it. The concept of the magazine was simple: literate writing about the out-of-doors. I jumped at the opportunity.
3
John Cheever
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
4
Teju Cole
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.
5
David Crystal
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
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Ajay Devgan
In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.
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Lance Henriksen
But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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James Herbert
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
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Michael Hirst
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.
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Judy Holliday
I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITERATE»

Discover the use of literate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to literate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, ...
The intimacy between Nin and Miller, first disclosed in Henry and June, is documented further in this impassioned exchange of letters between the two controversial writers. Edited and with an Introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, 1989
2
Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society.
Teresa Morgan, 1998
3
Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700
This book explores the varied vernacular forms and rich oral traditions which were such a part of popular culture in early modern England.
Adam Fox, 2000
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Creating Emotionally Literate Classrooms: An Introduction to ...
The methodology accommodates all learning styles, with six concrete "how to" steps for quick and easy implementation. It also comes with the reproducible materials for student use, as well as supporting teacher materials.
Marc A Brackett, Janet Pickard Kremenitzer, 2011
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The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics
In The Literate Eye, Rachel Teukolsky analyzes the vivid archive of Victorian art writing to reveal the key role played by nineteenth-century authors in the rise of modernist aesthetics.
Rachel Teukolsky, 2009
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A Literate Community: Common Threads and Unique Patterns in ...
A fourth-grade classroom and school library are the setting for this book that presents an in-depth and qualitative study of teaching and learning of reading and writing.
Carole Cook Freeman, 1995
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Literate Programming
The final essay is an example of CWEB, a system for literate programming in C and related languages. This volume is first in a series of Knuth's collected works.
Donald Ervin Knuth, 1992
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The Literate Classroom
Updated to introduce topics within the context of the new Primary Strategy and the National Literacy Strategy, this edited collection provides sound advice and practical suggestions about the teaching of literacy.
Prue Goodwin, 2013
9
Differently Literate: Boys, Girls and the Schooling of Literacy
The book is presented in three sections: an outline of the theoretical debates on gender difference and academic achievement; a description of the research into these issues conducted by the author; and an analysis of the author's findings.
Dr Elaine Millard, Elaine Millard, 2002
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Adolescent Boys' Literate Identity
This book is the representation of a narrative inquiry conducted with five ninth grade boys that were identified as displaying multiple literacies, looking specifically at how these boys storied their literate identities.
Mary Rice, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITERATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term literate is used in the context of the following news items.
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British MPs must get IT literate, warns BCS - Computer Business …
Decision makers given free advice on how to handle data and educate an IT literate workforce. British MPs and policy makers have been urged ... «Computer Business Review, Jul 15»
2
Bernie's Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism
and “The Warren Wing of the Democratic Party,” sundry half-literate denunciations of “Corporate Oligarchy” . . . “Not Just Gay — Ecstatic!” ... «National Review Online, Jul 15»
3
Exposing Every Student To STEM | TechCrunch
What does it mean to be STEM literate? It means understanding the fundamental concepts and approaches used in science, engineering, ... «TechCrunch, Jul 15»
4
Review: Steely Dan and Elvis Costello at Gexa Energy Pavilion …
When the Steely Dan-Elvis Costello bill was announced, it immediately made sense: Two acts known for literate songwriting, both rooted in the ... «Fort Worth Star Telegram, Jul 15»
5
Dominos Pizza Launches 'Emoji Literacy' Campaign - iDigital Times
Emoji literate or illiterate, one this is for sure: Dominos is loving emojis and is not stopping with innovative marketing ideas using the popular ... «iDigitalTimes.com, Jul 15»
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The Reform Movement's Shallow, Dangerous Mix of Religion and …
It is hyper-liberal, but not in a creative, interesting, or literate way. It is, in short, Jewishly unserious. According to the logic of the post, the United ... «Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
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Lyme disease spreading, prompting Utah victim to call for more …
“She was Lyme-literate,” said Gerald. “I've been on antibiotics since August 2013, and I'm still on antibiotics. Health officials report at least 300 ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»
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SONG PREMIERE: 80s Indie Rockers Raging Fire's Unreleased …
Having a strong, charismatic female singer in Melora Zaner, who often focused lyrics on literate and Southern gothic themes, set Raging Fire ... «Glide Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Middle East - Mobile Voice and Mobile Operators Market -- NEW …
... increasingly urbanised, and technically literate. Healthy infrastructure-based competition exists between three mobile network operators with ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
10
Marin summer internship program offers students an early jump on …
“Tom is very computer-literate and he prepped himself for the summer job. It's working out fine,” Pieri said. While Brawley is scoring points with ... «Marin Independent Journal, Jul 15»

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