educated
IPA: ˈɛdʒʌkeɪtʌd
adjective
- Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree.
- Based on relevant information.
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Examples of "educated" in Sentences
- He was educated to be a socialist.
- It was the language of the educated elite.
- All enjoyed what they called the educated risk of skydiving.
- The majority of students are educated in the Basque language.
- Getting educated is a good thing and does not require an Ivy League degree.
- Gives real meaning to the term educated edge, he knows what he's doing there.
- Wolf argues that number of students educated is not the right measure of education.
- Making decisions based on what a Saturday Night live comedian does in a skit is not what I call educated voting.
- Several readers Geoff Barbaro, Robin Cangie pointed to the dangers of the word "educated", which wrongly implies that education is a destination rather than a journey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.