educated person

collocation in English

meaningsofeducatedandperson

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educated
adjective
uk
/ˈedʒ.u.keɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈedʒ.ə.keɪ.t̬ɪd/
having learned a lot at school or university and having a good level ...
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person
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɜː.sən/us
/ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
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(Definition ofeducatedandpersonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Aneducatedpersonknew some literature, some history, some geography - and acquired some level of foreign-language competence.
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The averageeducatedpersonhas relatively little difficulty in learning vocabulary items, and, according to one estimate, may actually know as many as 150,000.
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The more mobileeducatedpersoncould obtain supplies during visits to urban areas.
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No scientificallyeducatedpersonwould pride himself on knowing everything about a language.
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There is no well and liberallyeducatedpersonpresent at the meeting she imagines, nobody to make the corrections and appeals for which the reader is clearly intended to yearn.
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But the "educatedperson", in itself, is a very desirable thing.
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And the right type of recruit is a much more highlyeducatedpersonthan ever before in our history.
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He will not be swept away by the type of promotion that might lead a lesseducatedpersonto use a domestic product.
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Of course, one can do so and if one is a mature, sophisticated andeducatedpersonthen one does that.
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I think of myself as a reasonablyeducatedperson, and there are probably many such people who still need to be reached by the scheme.
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Theeducatedpersonis capable of making a fuller use of leisure than the uneducated person.
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The soldier, unless he is a very exceptional and balancededucatedperson, will, naturally, always put defence far beyond economics.
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Is it to be on the basis of theeducatedpersonwho can possibly voice those fears better than the humble soul?
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I suggest that not even a highlyeducatedpersoncould read it, or even understand what it was.
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If the boys and girls look at the teacher and think that there is not much point in being aneducatedperson, they will not bother to be educated.
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That is difficult enough for aneducatedpersonhut, without wishing to be patronising, to a person who is of a limited literacy it presents an enormous hurdle.
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