Definition of literate

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Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered..

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Transliterate :: Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters..
Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold..
Peasantlike :: Peasantlike (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate.
Expunge :: Expunge (v. t.) To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences..
Illiteracy :: Illiteracy (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census..
Obliterate :: Obliterate (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
Charbon :: Charbon (n.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration..
Wipe :: Wipe (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively..
Agrammatist :: Agrammatist (n.) A illiterate person.
Literacy :: Literacy (n.) State of being literate.
Literate :: Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered..
Erase :: Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
Syzygy :: Syzygy (n.) Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side..
Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..
Letterless :: Letterless (a.) Illiterate.
Obliterative :: Obliterative (a.) Tending or serving to obliterate.
Lector :: Lector (n.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate..
Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing..
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