LITERATE PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does literate person mean? 

• LITERATE PERSON (noun)
  The noun LITERATE PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who can read and write

  Familiarity information: LITERATE PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITERATE PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who can read and write

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

literate; literate person

Hypernyms ("literate person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "literate person"):

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)