adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
barely
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Through it all Giap remained an intellectual, often aloof from his barely literate followers.
■ NOUN
culture
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But in the matter of the relations between a general oral and a privileged literate culture , the shift is crucial.
people
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It could, for literate people , provide a more interesting presentation of fact and argument.
society
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In comparing oral and literate societies in terms of their education systems, for instance, she represents oral systems as decidedly inferior.
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A literate society is only as competent to face the dangers of the future as our definition of that adjective allows.
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In the ancient world, literate societies recorded their own history in written documents.
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The evidence from shrines, temples and churches erected to meet the needs of literate societies is even more decisive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Every student should be literate by the time he or she leaves primary school.
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Over the last hundred years, people have become healthier, more literate , and better educated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Either way, they do not need to tyrannize the literate newcomer.
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It is in this way that the apparent divide between literate and non-literate cultures simply disappears.
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It, too, wants people to be literate and complains that its offers to help have been ignored.
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Meanwhile, the emerging industrial factories needed workers who were at least literate and able to follow directions.
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Paper costs are high, but loss of literate readers is much higher.
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So administration would be within the competence of any literate person.
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Third World governments build roads which help farmers to market their produce and schools which create a literate and numerate workforce.