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Meanings of well-read in English
Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding.
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Examples for "learned"
Examples for "learned"
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And I learned; day by day, week by week, month by month.
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Perhaps she'd actually learned something in that required logic course she'd taken.
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In July 2014, we learned something new that helps answer the question.
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Investors learned the perils of complacency in Europe's fiscal crisis last year.
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Former diplomat, foreign minister, prodigious linguist, including Russian learned on military service.
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She should not have taken such a risk, not knowing the situation.
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He said: If you don't know that, you know nothing worth knowing.
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But there is, of course, no knowing what the future may bring.
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It's a good feeling, though: the feeling of knowing anything can happen.
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And knowing that, she was able to change the balance of power.
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Much of enlightened U.S. opinion was falling in behind the Soviet position.
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Vienna halted a process of enlightened reform that went back seventy years.
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That's you with relationships this week: the enlightened yet grounded angel mixologist.
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They are not denominational in the sense in which enlightened people are.
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Fight from a place of enlightened self-interests, says my friend Terry Real.
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His system, according to knowledgeable scientists, probably won't work any time soon.
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It begs the question: How did everyone become so knowledgeable about it?
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I'm not knowledgeable enough to say how long, but for a time.
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If you're unsure what you need, speak to a knowledgeable immigration consultant.
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I've just never known anyone who was so knowledgeable about the War.
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Nothing to gain by discussing plans in public, a bold-lettered slide said.
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The days that followed were red lettered in the calendar of life.
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These cords are lettered A A and D D in his plan.
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Shelves fixed against the walls held huge volumes lettered on the back.
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You will be surprised how much you are abusing this four-lettered word.
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He had the simple and unaffected manners of a well-educated princely child.
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They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party.
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His well-educated daughter is charmingly described in an exquisite poem by Drayton:
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On the other hand the ordinary well-educated Roman could generally speak Greek.
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I am not regarded as a particularly well-educated person in my country.
Usage of well-read in English
1
He was one of the most well-read and informed people I knew.
2
General Johnston is a very well-read man, and agreeable to converse with.
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He is always a travelled man, and nearly always a well-read man.
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Many of them are French academics, they're all practical, well-read and rather intellectual.
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For these people are well-read and well-bred, and truly ladies in all things.
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Instead the list was top-heavy with writers even the well-read had trouble placing.
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A well-read Marian Keyes started to tease an as-yet-unread Leo Tolstoy.
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My well-read friend Douce had collected materials for such a work.
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Moreover, he was cultivated and well-read, and his society was agreeable.
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It was more a girl's well-read lesson than a Queen pronouncing her speech.
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And what a really well-read and agreeable man he is, all the while!
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I don't need to ask if the well-read Screenwriter demographic is still with me.
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He is well-read in history and its bastard sister mythology.
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My character is not an extremely well-read and educated man.
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He publishes his findings on a well-read blog called Virology.
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Mr. Benfy was too "well-read" to be wholly popular with the staff.