literacy

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] the ability to read and write: a campaign to promote adult literacy * basic literacy skills OPPILLITERACY seealsoCOMPUTERLITERACY

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

literacyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus literacyEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary literacyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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