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- Dictionarylettered/ˈlɛtəd/
adjective
- 1. formally educated: dated "though not lettered, he read widely"
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Learn the meaning of lettered as an adjective, with synonyms, pronunciation, and usage examples. Lettered can mean covered or decorated with letters, well educated, literate, or marked with letters.
Learn the meaning of lettered as an adjective, with synonyms, examples, and word history. Find out how to use lettered to describe someone who is learned, educated, or inscribed with letters.
Lettered means educated or learned, or marked with letters. It can also refer to a letterform or a lettered language. See how to use lettered in a sentence and find synonyms.
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.
Lettered means educated, literate, or marked with letters. Find out the origin, usage, and examples of lettered in different contexts and languages.
Learn the meaning of lettered as an adjective and a verb, with synonyms, sentences and examples. Find out how lettered relates to literacy, education and inscription.
Letter is an adjective meaning having letters or writing, or a noun meaning a person who writes letters. Learn more about its meaning, usage, etymology, pronunciation, and frequency in the Oxford English Dictionary.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English let‧tered /ˈletəd $ -ərd/ adjective formal well educated. lettered meaning, definition, what is lettered: well educated: Learn more.
Idioms to the letter, to the last particular; precisely: His orders were carried out to the letter. v.t. to mark or write with letters; inscribe. v.i. to earn a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, esp. a sport: He lettered in track at Harvard.
lettered. Marked with letters. Literate (able to read writing in letters). Educated, especially having a degree (entitled to put an abbreviation such as BS, MA, PhD, MD after a signature).
