literates

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Noun

literates noun

A person who is able to read and write.
A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.

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literary belletristic lettered educated literate person well-written literati literatus literator literatures literacy liter literatim literality literals literariness

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