literacynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈlɪt.ər.ə.si/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.si/C1 the ability to read and write:
Far more resources are needed to improve adult literacy.
The country has a literacy rate of almost 98%.
knowledge of a particular subject, or a particular type of knowledge:
Computer literacy is becoming as essential as the ability to drive a car.
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Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- leaf through sth
- peruse
- read sth over/through
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- reference
- riffle
- run your eye over sth idiom
- skim
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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