1. literate - Noun
2. literate - Adjective
3. literate - Adjective Satellite
Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.
One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.
A literary man.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll literary men are Red Sox fans-to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. John Cheever
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. Eric Hoffer
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. Alberto Manguel
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. Bill Nye
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. John Kenneth Galbraith
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. Alan Moore