Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having an education, especially one above the average.
- adj. Showing evidence of schooling, training, or experience.
- adj. Having or exhibiting cultivation; cultured: an educated manner.
- adj. Based on a certain amount of experience or factual knowledge: an educated guess.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of educate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Formed or developed by education.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
- adj. characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved
Etymologies
- Educate + -ed. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Why, nothing in particular; but to be educated because it is fashionable; to go home and sit in the parlor _educated ladies_; to talk about novels and poetry with the gentlemen that come in; to go into ecstasies over some boy's _last_; to set up for a professional husband.”
“The phrase "educated beyond his intelligence" used to be bandied about pretty freely, and now nobody ever uses it; higher education has the tang of higher moral purpose, and to question its universal value is thought of as a branch of snobbery, an attempt to go back in time and kick out the lower orders.”
The Guardian: Is extending higher education access still the right course?
“Gives real meaning to the term educated edge, he knows what he's doing there.”
“All enjoyed what they called the educated risk of skydiving.”
“Confining ourselves only to that small part of our millions which we speak of as the educated classes, that is those whose schooling is carried on beyond fourteen years of age, it will be found that only a small fraction of the men, and a still smaller fraction of the women, fully apprehend the meaning of words.”
“Making decisions based on what a Saturday Night live comedian does in a skit is not what I call educated voting.”
“There is little that it does not touch, being physically present in the architecture of schools, psychologically present when we talk and think about what makes us civilized, linguistically present in much of modern communication and in what we call educated usage.”
“Getting educated is a good thing and does not require an Ivy League degree.”
“Wolf argues that number of students educated is not the right measure of education.”
Education and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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