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ed·u·cat·ed  (j-ktd)
adj.
1. Having an education, especially one above the average.
2.
a. Showing evidence of schooling, training, or experience.
b. Having or exhibiting cultivation; cultured: an educated manner.
3. Based on a certain amount of experience or factual knowledge: an educated guess.

educated [ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd]
adj
1. having an education, esp a good one
2. displaying culture, taste, and knowledge; cultivated
3. (prenominal) based on experience or information (esp in the phrase an educated guess)
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.educated - possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
civilised, civilized - having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
numerate - able to understand and use numbers
enlightened - having knowledge and spiritual insight
informed - having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer"
intellectual - appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
literate - able to read and write
uneducated - not having a good education
2.educated - characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate"
informed - having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer"

educated
adjective
2. taught, schooled, coached, informed, tutored, instructed, nurtured, well-informed, well-read, well-taught The country's workforce is well educated and diligent.
taught ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unread, unschooled, unlettered, untaught
Translations
educated [ˈedjʊkeɪtɪd] ADJ [person, voice] → culto
an educated guessuna suposición bien fundamentada

educated [ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtɪd] adj
(= cultured) → cultivé(e)
(= well-educated) → instruit(e)
educated guess nsupposition f éclairée
to make an educated guess → faire une supposition éclairée

educated
adjgebildet; to make an educated guesseine fundierte or wohlbegründete Vermutung anstellen; an educated mindein gebildeter Geist

educated [ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd] adj (person) → istruito/a, colto/a
educated [ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd] adj (person) → istruito/a, colto/a

educated متعلم vzdělaný uddannet gebildet μορφωμένος culto koulutettu éduqué školovan colto 教育のある 교육받은 intellectueel utdannet wykształcony culto образованный utbildad ซึ่งได้รับการศึกษา eğitimli có học thức 受过教育的


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Thoroughly Educated upon my cards; for my greatest pride lies in the fact that the world cannot produce another Woggle-Bug with a tenth part of my own culture and erudition.
Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna Pavlovna's was the first he had attended in Russia.
Luckily he had no responsibilities; his father and his twin brother had died when he was yet a boy, and his mother, whose only noteworthy achievement had been the naming of her twin sons Marquis de Lafayette and Lorenzo de Medici Randall, had supported herself and educated her child by making coats up to the very day of her death.
 
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