WELL-READ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-read mean? 

• WELL-READ (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-READ has 2 senses:

1. well informed or deeply versed through reading

2. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-READ (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Well informed or deeply versed through reading

Context example:

well-read in medieval history

Similar:

informed (having much knowledge or education)

Sense 2

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 

They set forward; and, with a grandeur of air, a dignified step, which caught the eye, but could not shake the doubts of the well-read Catherine, he led the way across the hall, through the common drawing-room and one useless antechamber, into a room magnificent both in size and furniture—the real drawing-room, used only with company of consequence.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)