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well-read
[ wel-red ]
adjective
- having read extensively (sometimes followed by in ):
well-read in oceanography.
well-read
/ ˈwɛlˈrɛd /
adjective
- having read widely and intelligently; erudite
Word History and Origins
Origin of well-read1
Example Sentences
While quick on his feet, funny, pointed and well-read, Stewart is a Manhattanite through and through.
Your audience is more sophisticated and well-read, and they know who Jim Cameron and Robert Rodriguez are.
But in the West, the papers were not well read, much less understood.
She was well-read, articulate and interested in current affairs.
Rod Martin, a U.S. Republican Party member and former Paypal.com advisor, said he was thrilled by how well read the kids were.
I shudder when I chance to come across a really well-read and enlightened man!
The well-read politician will see that a contest similar to those thus indicated is going on almost all over Europe.
You might almost as well read dictionaries with a hope of getting a succinct and clear view of language.
Mr. Lee gives one the impression of being a well-read man, as, in fact, he is.
"It isn't as if she wasn't clever and well read," her daughter went on.
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