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literate person

DEFINITIONS OF: literate person

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n a person who can read and write

Synonyms:
literate
Examples:
Samuel Pepys
English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)
Types:
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alphabetiser, alphabetizer
a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order
reader
a person who can read; a literate person
writer
a person who is able to write and has written something
decipherer
a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text
diarist, diary keeper, journalist
someone who keeps a diary or journal
map-reader
a person who can read maps
scrawler, scribbler
a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read
skimmer
a rapid superficial reader
good speller, poor speller, speller
someone who spells words
transcriber
someone who makes a written version of spoken material
transcriber
someone who rewrites in a different script
Type of:
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being
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