Sentence examples for been literate from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who is able to read and write
Just getting the file cards in order would have challenged Hercules, if Hercules had been literate.
I come from south India where women from privileged families have been literate for generations.
Certainly it is unlikely that in 1514 the son of a Midlands tradesman would have been literate, let alone that he would have written poetry.
"Part of the problem is that we've been literate for so long," said Graham Pointon, a pronunciation adviser in the BBC's pronunciation department.
So local leaders had both the motive and the means to set up schools.Around 1000, reckons Merle Goldman, professor of Chinese history at Boston University, perhaps 30% of the 100m or so Chinese may have been literate to some degree.
The human race has, after all, only been literate for around five or six thousand years, which makes the task measurable, if not easy.
Nearly all Samoans are literate.
Virtually all Andorrans are literate.
And these were literate times.
To be accepted, applicants must be literate.
