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Definition of Educated

1. Adjective. Possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge).

2. Adjective. Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved. "An enlightened electorate"

Definition of Educated

1. a. Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

Definition of Educated

1. Adjective. Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree. ¹

2. Verb. (past of educate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Educated

1. educate [v] - See also: educate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Educated

educabilities educability educable educables educamate educamated educamates educamating educamation educand

educands educashun educatability educatable educate educated (current term) educated guess educated guesses educatedness educatednesses

educatee educatees educates educating education education of mentally retarded educational educational activity educational institution educational measurement

Literary usage of Educated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"This I consider a necessity. half-knowledge mor« and more, if we could succeed in causing at least the majority of educated persons to progress far enough ..."

2. Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-western Territory by Jacob Burnet (1847)
"Where born and educated.—The latter, engaged in the Revolutionary struggle in.—Was chairman of the Committee of Public Safety.—Treatment of the Tories. ..."

3. The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait by Parker McCobb Reed (1882)
"JoHN A. I)ANIELS, La Crosse, was born in Delaware county, New York, and educated at time I)elaware Literary Institute. He studied law at Kenosha, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Biography: Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All by Richard Alfred Davenport (1839)
"STEELE, Sir RICHARD, son of the secretary to the duke of Ormond, was born in 1671, or, according to some accounts, in 1675, at Dublin; was educated at the ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The second is Claude Fleury, who, in the interest especially of educated readers, wrote a " Histoire ecclésiastique" in 20 volumes, reaching to 1414 (Paris, ..."

6. Visitation of England and Wales by Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp (1904)
"Buckingham, on Wednesday, 12 June, bapt. at Taplow 1 August 1872 ; educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford, matriculated 16 October 1891. ..."

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