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Meanings of well-read in English

Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding.

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Usage of well-read in English
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He was one of the most well-read and informed people I knew.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
General Johnston is a very well-read man, and agreeable to converse with.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
3
He is always a travelled man, and nearly always a well-read man.
First and Last
4
Many of them are French academics, they're all practical, well-read and rather intellectual.
Radio NZ
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For these people are well-read and well-bred, and truly ladies in all things.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 / A Maga...
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Instead the list was top-heavy with writers even the well-read had trouble placing.
The Irish Times
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A well-read Marian Keyes started to tease an as-yet-unread Leo Tolstoy.
The Irish Times
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My well-read friend Douce had collected materials for such a work.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
9
Moreover, he was cultivated and well-read, and his society was agreeable.
The Daughters of Danaus
10
It was more a girl's well-read lesson than a Queen pronouncing her speech.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2
11
And what a really well-read and agreeable man he is, all the while!
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
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I don't need to ask if the well-read Screenwriter demographic is still with me.
The Irish Times
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He is well-read in history and its bastard sister mythology.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
14
My character is not an extremely well-read and educated man.
Reuters
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He publishes his findings on a well-read blog called Virology.
The Guardian
16
Mr. Benfy was too "well-read" to be wholly popular with the staff.
Romance Island