educateded‧u‧cat‧ed /ˈedjʊkeɪtɪd $ ˈedʒə-/ ●●○ adjective 
a highly educated woman2university-educated/well educated/privately educated etc having had a particular type of education3educated guess a guess that is likely to be correct because it is based on some knowledge: Investors must make an educated guess as to the company’s potential.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In general, children of educated parents tend to get better grades.
- The boy came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.
- You're smart, you're educated, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job.
- All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man, as Paul Alexandre proves.
- Among articulate and educated persons in 1860 these were a distinct minority.
- Darwin's Origin of Species was totally accessible to the educated laymen.
- Gifford was a former Royalist officer, an educated man who had himself experienced a fierce inward struggle in his puritan conversion.
- Less formally educated people can acquire professional competence.
- Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
- Romantic nationalism based on the demand for recognition of cultural identity was a sentiment which moved the educated middle classes.
Longman Language Activatorintelligent and well-educated
someone who is educated is intelligent and knows a lot because they have had a good education, have read a lot etc: · You're smart, you're educated, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job.· In general, children of educated parents tend to get better grades.well educated: · The boy came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.highly educated: · Nadia is a highly-educated, very motivated individual who will go far.
an intelligent, well-educated person who spends a lot of their time thinking about, writing about, and discussing ideas, literature etc: · It's an organization of writers, artists and intellectuals, who come together to discuss their ideas.· The restaurant was once the meeting place for leading French left-wing intellectuals such as Sartre and de Beauvoir.
formal a learned person has read many books and knows a lot about many things, and is greatly respected because of their knowledge: · The old professor was obviously a very learned man.· It's true that art critics aren't as learned as art-historians in these matters.
someone who is academic is very good at studying and does well at school, university etc: · I wasn't very academic, and l left school at sixteen.· If you're academic, you can take some of your exams a year or two early.· Teachers must provide challenging activities for their more academic pupils.
the most intelligent person or people in a country, organization etc: the brains: · You'd better ask Toby. He's the brains around here.best brains: · Many of Britain's best brains have left the country to go and work in America.
formal the most intelligent and highly educated people in a society such as the writers, thinkers, and artists: · The demonstrators belong to the middle classes and the intelligentsia, which have suffered most as a result of the government's economic policies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a highly educated woman Investors must make an educated guess as to the company’s potential.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She is a highly educated woman.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
a highly educated woman Investors must make an educated guess as to the company’s potential.· The educated classes shared certain values and experiences.
(=a guess based on things that you know are correct)· Stockbrokers try to make educated guesses as to which stocks will do well.
She is a highly educated woman.· By the time she and the Prince were engaged two years later, she was still no better educated.· They are better educated and more informed - though illiteracy is still widespread among the poor.· He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena.· Not so: the recruit of today is generally better educated and more enquiring than his counterpart of previous decades.· It had to carry conviction with a better educated, more discriminating public.· She was more attractive, better educated and more womanly.· They were better educated and better paid.
· Education Wordsworth was an intelligent and highly educated man: he was a learned, clever, even a witty poet.· Instead there seems to be an increasing amount of discontent among people, especially the more highly educated sections of society.· He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family, and correspondent of Gregory the Great.· Childless men, especially those with a broken marriage, were more likely to be ambitious, highly educated professionals.· Northern Ireland has a readily available and continuing supply of highly educated school-leavers and graduates essential to your company's growth.· The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people.· The level of sophistication required here is very great even for highly educated adults.
· He came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.· More importantly, she would have met relatively well educated people.· One of its tenets is that only well educated and professionally trained individuals have the competence to work with the mass media.· These are the professional women, the graduates, the well educated or highly trained who can command full-time salaries.
NOUN· They had little importance, however, outside a small minority of the educated classes.
· Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.· Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.· But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?· The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
· And this is not just a generalised and detached polemic against injustice by an educated man.· Gifford was a former Royalist officer, an educated man who had himself experienced a fierce inward struggle in his puritan conversion.· Will Simpson was one of the new breed of educated men.· Today there are no longer any educated men in the old city.· All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man, as Paul Alexandre proves.· He was a cultured, educated man, yet he lacked the simple faith of the poorest of the poor.· He was a well if conventionally educated man, and a man of various interests and hobbies.
· Further, when his influence on educated people is considered, there remain huge problems of discrimination.· Less formally educated people can acquire professional competence.· A society consisting of educated people, like a society of healthy people, made economic sense.· More importantly, she would have met relatively well educated people.· Your aim should be to speak as educated people you admire speak, clearly and without affectation.· It came as a shock to Stella, learning that educated people like Dotty Blundell and Meredith adhered to such a faith.· Even today, most educated people could probably tell you something about Voltaire and Rousseau.· Many have demonstrated that professional competence can be acquired quite simply and successfully by less educated people.
· Among articulate and educated persons in 1860 these were a distinct minority.· Only on this basis can people make the informed choice which is the hallmark of the educated person.
· Pill use declined, especially among older educated women, from 45 million courses in 1977 to 38 million in 1979.· Forty-eight percent of university educated women used the sheath compared to 27 percent of the rest.· Finally, a small group visits Poopathy - the most educated woman in the area.· Both concluded that the families of educated women were no smaller than the average.· So it's the educated women who suffer.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► university-educated/well educated/privately educated etc
- Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.
- But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
- Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
- Still, money managers, analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses.
- That sometimes means making educated guesses.
- The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
- Where and what kinds they will be is an open question that is, at best, an educated guess.
WORD FAMILYnouneducationeducationalisteducationisteducatoradjectiveeducated ≠ uneducatededucationaleducable ≠ ineducableeducativeverbeducateadverbeducationally
1having been well taught and learned a lot: a highly educated woman2university-educated/well educated/privately educated etc having had a particular type of education3educated guess a guess that is likely to be correct because it is based on some knowledge: Investors must make an educated guess as to the company’s potential.