All 4 Uses
literate
in
Three Cups of Tea
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- And when Syed found out why Mortenson wanted to type letters, he sat Mortenson in front of an Apple Macintosh and gave him a series of free tutorials until his new friend was computer literate.†
Chpt 5literate = able to read and write
- Someone from Pakistan helping me become computer literate so I could help Pakistani kids get literate.†
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- Someone from Pakistan helping me become computer literate so I could help Pakistani kids get literate.†
Chpt 5
- The students spent their days studying "the Koran, the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed and the basics of Islamic law as interpreted by their barely literate teachers," he writes.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(literate) able to read and write
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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."