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WELL-READ
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Dictionary entry overview: What does well-read mean?
• WELL-READ (adjective)
The adjective WELL-READ has 2 senses:
1. well informed or deeply versed through reading
2. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
Familiarity information: WELL-READ used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Well informed or deeply versed through reading
Context example:
well-read in medieval history
Similar:
informed (having much knowledge or education)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
Synonyms:
knowing; knowledgeable; learned; lettered; well-educated; well-read
Context example:
a knowledgeable audience
Similar:
educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))
Context examples
They set forward; and, with a grandeur of air, a dignified step, which caught the eye, but could not shake the doubts of the well-read Catherine, he led the way across the hall, through the common drawing-room and one useless antechamber, into a room magnificent both in size and furniture—the real drawing-room, used only with company of consequence.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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