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Literate

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lit·er·ate

[lit-er-it]
adjective
1.
able to read and write.
2.
having or showing knowledge of literature, writing, etc.; literary; well-read.
3.
characterized by skill, lucidity, polish, or the like: His writing is literate but cold and clinical.
4.
having knowledge or skill in a specified field: literate in computer usage.
5.
having an education; educated.
noun
6.
a person who can read and write.
7.
a learned person.

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Literate is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin līterātus, litterātus learned, scholarly. See letter, -ate1

lit·er·ate·ly, adverb
an·ti·lit·er·ate, adjective, noun
an·ti·lit·er·ate·ly, adverb
un·lit·er·ate, adjective


3, 5. well-informed, knowledgeable.

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  • If elected, his press for a more integrated and literate workforce will benefit us all.
  • Most of these former students were not financially literate.
  • The message for the literate audience at home is almost the opposite.
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literate (ˈlɪtərɪt)
 
adj
1.  able to read and write
2.  educated; learned
3.  Compare numerate used to words rather than numbers as a means of expression
 
n
4.  a literate person
 
[C15: from Latin litterātus learned. See letter]
 
'literately
 
adv

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literate
early 15c., from L. lit(t)eratus "educated, learned," lit. "one who knows the letters," formed in imitation of Gk. grammatikos from L. lit(t)era "letter."
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