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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Lettered \Let"tered\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]rd), a.
     1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. `` Are you not
        lettered?'' --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. `` A
        lettered education.'' --Collier.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Inscribed or stamped with letters. --Addison.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  lettered
       adj 1: able to read and write well
       2: highly educated; having extensive information or
          understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing
          instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable
          audience" [syn: enlightened, knowing, knowledgeable,
           learned, well-educated, well-read]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  lettered
     a.
     1 Marked with letters.
     2 literate (able to read writing in letters).
     3 Educated, especially having a degree (entitled to put an
  abbreviation such as BS, MA, PhD, MD after a signature).
     vb.
     (infl of en letter  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  lettered
     a.
     1 Marked with letters.
     2 literate (able to read writing in letters).
     3 Educated, especially having a degree (entitled to put an
  abbreviation such as BS, MA, PhD, MD after a signature).
     vb.
     (infl of en letter  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  lettered
     a.
     1 Marked with letters.
     2 literate (able to read writing in letters).
     3 Educated, especially having a degree (entitled to put an
  abbreviation such as BS, MA, PhD, MD after a signature).
     vb.
     (infl of en letter  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  lettered
     a.
     1 Marked with letters.
     2 literate (able to read writing in letters).
     3 Educated, especially having a degree (entitled to put an
  abbreviation such as BS, MA, PhD, MD after a signature).
     vb.
     (infl of en letter  ed-form)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Lettered /lˈɛtəd/
  مغطّى بالحروف

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  lettered /lˈɛtəd/ 
  1. надписан
  Marked with letters
  2. грамотен
  able to read writing in letters

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  lettered /lˈɛtəd/ 
  sečtělý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lettered /lˈɛtəd/
  belesen, gebildet 
     Synonym: well-read
  
   see: a man of vast reading
  

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  lettered /lˈɛtəd/
  1. tahsil görmüş, okumuş, münevver, edip
  2. harflerle işaret olunmuş.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɫɛtɝd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "lettered":
     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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 精通文学的,有学问的,有教育的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 精通文学的,有学问的,有教育的

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