WELL-EDUCATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-educated mean? 

• WELL-EDUCATED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-EDUCATED has 1 sense:

1. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

  Familiarity information: WELL-EDUCATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-EDUCATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

Synonyms:

knowing; knowledgeable; learned; lettered; well-educated; well-read

Context example:

a knowledgeable audience

Similar:

educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))

 Context examples 

Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)