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UNEDUCATED PERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uneducated person mean?
• UNEDUCATED PERSON (noun)
The noun UNEDUCATED PERSON has 1 sense:
1. an ignorant person
Familiarity information: UNEDUCATED PERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ignorant person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ignoramus; know nothing; uneducated person
Hypernyms ("uneducated person" is a kind of...):
unskilled person (a person who lacks technical training)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uneducated person"):
aliterate; aliterate person (a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources)
illiterate; illiterate person; nonreader (a person unable to read)
Context examples
She is not an uneducated person, I should think, by her manner of speaking; her accent was quite pure; and the clothes she took off, though splashed and wet, were little worn and fine.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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