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Educated   /ˈɛdʒəkˌeɪtəd/  /ˈɛdʒjukˌeɪtəd/   Listen
Educated

adjective
1.
Possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge).
2.
Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved.  Synonym: enlightened.  "An enlightened electorate"


Educate

verb
(past & past part. educated; pres. part. educating)
1.
Give an education to.
2.
Create by training and teaching.  Synonyms: develop, prepare, train.  "We develop the leaders for the future"
3.
Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.  Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train.  "Train your tastebuds" , "She is well schooled in poetry"



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"Educated" Quotes from Famous Books



... solicitude for the young fellow who was like brother and son to her—this handsome, affectionate, generous boy who had steadily from the very first declined to accept one penny of her comfortable little fortune lest she be deprived of the least luxury or convenience, and who had doggedly educated and prepared himself, and contrived to live within the scanty means ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... produced the two foremost workers in electricity. It was now France's turn to take a hand, and, through the efforts of Charles Francois de Cisternay Dufay, to advance the science of electricity very materially. Dufay was a highly educated savant, who had been soldier and diplomat betimes, but whose versatility and ability as a scientist is shown by the fact that he was the only man who had ever contributed to the annals of the academy investigations in every one of the six subjects admitted ...
— A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... wish that his daughters should be educated at home. In consequence they were not sent to any school, but had daily masters and governesses to instruct them in the usual curriculum of knowledge. It might be truly said that for them the sun always shone, and that they were carefully guarded from the east wind. They were naturally bright ...
— The School Queens • L. T. Meade
... who had behaved so well during the voyage should have changed so much; but so it was. Probably they were disappointed at not getting to Sydney, where they had expected to enjoy themselves after their own coarse fashion. The better-educated men, ...
— Twice Lost • W.H.G. Kingston
... educated also, and a man of fine address and manners, when he wished to be so. But he was unprincipled, and when he returned to the tribe lost no time in breaking all the laws imposed by the United States for the government and welfare of ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor


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