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Definition of Preliterate
1. Adjective. Not yet having acquired the ability to read and write.
2. Adjective. Used of a society that has not developed writing.
Definition of Preliterate
1. Adjective. (context: of a culture) that has not yet developed a written language ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a person) who has not yet learned to read and write ¹
3. Noun. a member of such a culture ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preliterate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preliterate
Literary usage of Preliterate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hmong, 1987-1995: A Selected & Annotated Bibliography edited by Christina J. Smith (1996)
""The Effect of Media Choice on English Literacy Acquisition for preliterate Hmong
Adult Learners." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1990. ..."
2. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1917)
"Advancing from preliterate society to the classical period of Greece, we find
more definite ideas in regard to population. Although marriage was practically ..."
3. Africa South of the Sahara: The Challenge to Western Security by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan (1981)
"About 80 percent of the African population is made up of preliterate cultivators,
dependent primarily on backward methods of agriculture. ..."
4. Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for edited by Ada-Helen Bayer, Frances L. Brisbane, Amelie Ramirez, Leonard G. Epstein (1998)
"On the other hand, tools and methods for farming, fishing, hunting, or healing
could not have been invented by preliterate humans without their ..."
5. American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness by Robert Grudin (2006)
"... the ancient Greek mind evolved from polytheistic and preliterate saga to
analytic and even Utopian thinking, and the Greek idea of politics evolved from ..."
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