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

Able to read and write; having literacy. / Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read. / Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).

In the way of one who is literate.

plural of literate

The quality of being literate.

plural of literation

The use of letters to represent sounds, words, etc., in a language.

plural of literator

A literary person, a man of letters. / One who writes professionally. / A learned person.

(law) The method of strictly interpreting a statute according to the meaning, established by convention, of the words used therein.