lettered
Describing a friend as lettered is a compliment — you're remarking on her educational success and knowledge. People are especially lettered when they've read a lot of books.
Though you'd never want to describe yourself as lettered — you'd sound like a show off — it's a great way to describe a scholarly friend. Lettered people are well-educated and well-read, and are often academics, either teaching or researching their areas of interest. The origin of lettered is littera, "letter of the alphabet" or "document," and its plural form, litteræ, which means "literature or books."
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highly educated; having extensive information or understandingsynonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, learned, well-educated, well-readeducatedpossessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
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To be literate is to know how to read. Words stemming from this root all have something to do with reading and letters. More Latin Love, Volume III lists: capere, specere, pendere, and seguire! ELA Common Core State Standard: "Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word."
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