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Meaning of "well-educated" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WELL-EDUCATED

well-educated  [ˌwɛlˈɛdʒʊkeɪtɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELL-EDUCATED

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

WHAT DOES WELL-EDUCATED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of well-educated in the English dictionary

The definition of well-educated in the dictionary is having had a good education.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WELL-EDUCATED


certificated
səˈtɪfɪˌkeɪtɪd
complicated
ˈkɒmplɪˌkeɪtɪd
contraindicated
ˌkɒntrəˈɪndɪˌkeɪtɪd
dedicated
ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪtɪd
dislocated
ˈdɪsləˌkeɪtɪd
domesticated
dəˈmestɪˌkeɪtɪd
educated
ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd
elasticated
ɪˈlæstɪkeɪtɪd
fabricated
ˈfæbrɪkeɪtɪd
intoxicated
ɪnˈtɒksɪkeɪtɪd
located
ləʊˈkeɪtɪd
lubricated
ˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪd
plicated
ˈplaɪkeɪtɪd
prefabricated
priːˈfæbrɪkeɪtɪd
sophisticated
səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtɪd
syndicated
ˈsɪndɪˌkeɪtɪd
truncated
trʌŋˈkeɪtɪd
uncomplicated
ʌnˈkɒmplɪˌkeɪtɪd
undereducated
ˌʌndərˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd
uneducated
ʌnˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELL-EDUCATED

well-deserved
well-designed
well-developed
well-digger
well-disciplined
well-disposed
well-documented
well-done
well-dressed
well-earned
well-endowed
well-equipped
well-established
well-favoured
well-fed
well-financed
well-finished
well-fitted
well-fixed
well-formed

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELL-EDUCATED

aduncated
desiccated
estimated
fornicated
half-educated
imbricated
infuscated
medicated
rusticated
self-educated
trifurcated
triplicated
unallocated
unauthenticated
uncertificated
undedicated
undomesticated
unduplicated
unlocated
unreciprocated
unsophisticated

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

SYNONYMS

Translation of «well-educated» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELL-EDUCATED

Find out the translation of well-educated to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of well-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 «well-educated» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

受过良好教育
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bien educada
570 millions of speakers

English

well-educated
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अच्छी तरह से शिक्षित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

- تعليما جيدا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хорошо образованный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bem- educado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুশিক্ষাপ্রপ্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bien éduqués
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

berpelajaran tinggi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gut ausgebildete
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

よく教育を受けた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘 교육
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apik-educated
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giáo dục tốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நன்கு படித்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुशिक्षित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kültürlü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ben educato -
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobrze wykształcone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добре освічений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bine - educat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καλά μορφωμένοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

goed opgeleide
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

väl utbildade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

velutdannede
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of well-educated

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-EDUCATED»

The term «well-educated» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.898 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-EDUCATED» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «WELL-EDUCATED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word well-educated.
1
Alben W. Barkley
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
2
Jonathan Coe
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
3
Stacey Dash
The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan.
4
Mark Hatfield
Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.
5
Tim Heidecker
There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
6
Kathy Ireland
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
7
Michael Ledeen
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
8
Hooman Majd
Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.
9
Henning Mankell
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.
10
Paul Muldoon
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELL-EDUCATED»

Discover the use of well-educated in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to well-educated and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education ...
A guide to "classical learning" helps readers fill in the holes in their education as it looks at great works of fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, drama, and other genres and provides annotated listings of suggested readings.
S. Wise Bauer, 2003
2
What Does it Mean to be Well Educated? and More Essays on ...
A collection of essays argues that traditional educational practices in America thwart the development of more meaningful objectives to provide students with high-quality instruction.
Alfie Kohn, 2004
3
Marriage, for Equals: The Successful Joint (Ad)Ventures of ...
In addition to revealing the telltale signs of doomed relationships, this book also describes a form of marriage that is highly successful and deeply rewarding to many of the smartest women in this generation.
Shauna Howarth Springer, Shauna Howarth Springer Ph. D., 2012
4
Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own
If experience is critical, as Kant said, and memory is faulty, as Montaigne said, and refutation is the key to erudition, as Plato said, it seems that Fadiman might not have been very well educated at all. Still, I met the man. I admired the man.
Roger C. Schank, 2004
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education ...
In this new book, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading.
Susan Wise Bauer, 2003
6
A People Armed and Free: The Truth about the Second Amendment
The point of this is, if we had such an amendment, it would not mean that only well educated voters have the right to read or write books, nor that the right to read books of one's own choosing can be restricted to only those subjects which lead ...
Jack Reynolds, 2003
7
The Scar of Race
Only in one group — well-educated liberals — does a clear majority reject the view of blacks as exploiting welfare. A similar pattern holds for diffusion of the other negative stereotypes — for instance, that blacks are poor because they simply ...
Paul M. Sniderman, Thomas Leonard Piazza, 2009
8
How to Read a Book
Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional ...
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, 2011
9
Plato's Ethics
For well-educated people without knowledge, the belief that an action is just will be sufficient for them to want to do it, given the rest of their outlook; if they believe that an action is just, that is one of the features that their spirited part responds to  ...
Terence Irwin Professor of Philosophy Cornell University, 1994
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Higher Education and Economic Growth
Second, those industries in the United States whose technical progress has been most rapid are those industries making most use of well-educated labor. This is compatible with the notion that workers with more schooling are more likely to ...
William E. Becker, D.R. Lewis, 1993

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

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term well-educated is used in the context of the following news items.
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Young, well-educated: New profile of drug abusers in Singapore
SINGAPORE: They are young, well-educated, come from middle-to-high income backgrounds, and cut across all ethnic communities. They are a new profile of ... «Channel News Asia, Jun 15»
2
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah speaking at a press …
KARACHI: Arrested in connection with the Safoora Goth carnage and killing of rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, the “well-educated” criminals also have ... «DAWN.com, May 15»
3
UK: Well-educated women twice as likely to be problem drinkers
A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has revealed that professional women in the UK are twice as likely to be ... «International Business Times UK, May 15»
4
Millennials: 'Hungrier and More Well-Educated' Than Past Groups
Entitled, lazy, narcissistic and addicted to social media. Those are just some of the common complaints about millennials by their older colleagues. «NBCNews.com, Apr 15»
5
Well-educated, well-paid, but mired in debt
A TERTIARY education, average or even above-average income but crushing credit card or other unsecured debt of at least two years' worth of annual pay. «The Straits Times, Apr 15»
6
Why well-educated Westerners are joining the Islamic State
After studying the genocide in Rwanda for more than a decade, Rakiya Omaar, director of the Governance and Justice Group, discovered that well-educated ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
7
Berlin Brothel Seeks Well-Educated, Multilingual Quality Control …
A brothel in Berlin is seeking a university-educated, multilingual, quality control tester to check their employees and ensure their establishment offers a quality ... «Newsweek, Mar 15»
8
Well-educated 'Jihadi John' no surprise to experts
This undated image shows a frame from a video released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, by Islamic State militants that purports to show the militant who beheaded of taxi ... «Yahoo News, Feb 15»
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NYT Hopes India Can Avoid China's Plight: a High-Paid, Well
NYT Hopes India Can Avoid China's Plight: a High-Paid, Well-Educated Workforce. By Jim Naureckas 7 Comments. Indian farmers (photo: Atul Loke/NYT). «FAIR, Feb 15»
10
Howard Dean Digs Scott Walker: "How Well-educated is This Guy?"
"This is a particular problem for Scott Walker which has not been an issue yet, but it will. Scott Walker, were he to become president, would be the first president ... «Town Hall, Feb 15»

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