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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LET'TERED, pp. Stamped with letters.
LET'TERED, a.
1. Literate; educated; versed in literature or science.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience" [syn: knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. learned, educated b. of, relating to, or characterized by learning ; cultured 2. inscribed with or as if with letters

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. well read or educated.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Letter Let"ter (l[e^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lettered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lettering.] To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lettered Let"tered (l[e^]t"t[~e]rd), a. 1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. `` Are you not lettered?'' --Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. --Milman. 2. Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. `` A lettered education.'' --Collier. 3. Inscribed or stamped with letters. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is lettered is covered or decorated with letters or words. ...a crudely lettered cardboard sign. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Learned, literary, bookish, well-read, deep-read, book-learned.

Moby Thesaurus

abecedarian, abstruse, allographic, alphabetic, capital, civilized, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, enlightened, erudite, graphemic, ideographic, knowledgeable, learned, lexigraphic, literal, literary, literate, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, pansophic, pictographic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, transliterated, uncial, upper-case, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, well-versed, wise