educated
Americanadjective
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having undergone education.
educated people.
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characterized by or displaying qualities of culture and learning.
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based on some information or experience.
an educated estimate of next year's sales.
adjective
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having an education, esp a good one
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displaying culture, taste, and knowledge; cultivated
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(prenominal) based on experience or information (esp in the phrase an educated guess )
Other Word Forms
- half-educated adjective
- noneducated adjective
- quasi-educated adjective
- supereducated adjective
- undereducated adjective
- well-educated adjective
Etymology
Origin of educated
Example Sentences
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As Ellen Carol DuBois relates in “Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” her subject was appalled to realize that, after the Civil War, men of unexalted background were destined to get the vote before educated women like her.
He said he loved her but felt obligated to keep his parents, and the wider public, in the dark until she was properly educated, and he had returned from the Arctic in triumph.
From Literature
Take an insurance policy by being broadly educated, being deeply educated, being flexible in the face of change, maybe saving money to get through the disruptions—the things you’d do in any time of uncertainty.
"I also knew that as voting members, most people in the audience would have seen I Swear and would be well prepared, well educated and well informed about my condition," he said.
From BBC
In Districts 3 and 4, they ran younger members of the family, better educated and with less of a godfather image than the older generation.
From BBC
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