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Definition

able to read and write

More rarely, literate can refer to knowledge in a particular subject area as in: "She is computer literate."

Occasionally literate is also used to indicate a knowledge of literature or writing as in: "I don't remember the name of Odysseus' wife. Ask Susan. She's one of the more literate people I know." or "If you want a highly literate record of the minutes, ask Susan to record them."

Only 25% of adults are literate in that country.

literate = able to read and write

If you're literate and can access the Internet, you can get answers to millions of questions.

literate = able to read and write

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

literate = able to read

By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

literate = able to read and write

The minister was literate.
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
The German literate reversed this process with the profane French literature.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
... My lover was no evil man, no blind follower of the regime, but a literate man, a gentle man, and a believer in eternal China!
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
In front of one of the benevolent associations, a literate man was chanting the Gold Mountain News, which was taped to the window.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
Always a few literate junkies.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
I'll be one of the few demonstrably literate people ever to graduate from this school, Colonel.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Some of them, but not many, were even literate.
Tim Tebow -- Through My Eyes
He has always associated with the learned, the gentle, the literate, and the reasonable both in France and in America.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
"Martin, Martin, Martin," she said, "the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg's day.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
With that, Eragon began the task of becoming literate.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
They had called the college paper, and someone had told them I was halfway literate.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
He listens as Lincoln talks of extending suffrage to literate blacks and those who fought for the Union.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
We were fully literate in nu shu, and when we were apart we wrote each other almost daily.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The poor child was hardly literate.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
It'll be like you're literate.
Chris Crutcher -- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
If Will were as literate as Guy, or Guy were as executive as Will, I think I could endure even Gopher Prairie.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

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