educated

adjective ed·u·cat·ed \ ˈe-jə-ˌkā-təd \

Updated on: 5 Dec 2017

Definition of educated

1 : having an education; especially : having an education beyond the average

educated speakers

2 a : giving evidence of training or practice : skilled

educated hands

b : befitting one that is educated

educated taste

c : based on some knowledge of fact

an educated guess

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educatedness

noun

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Examples of educated in a Sentence

These companies want an educated work force.
an educated woman with an impressive career

Recent Examples of educated from the Web

Offering an incentive At Ohio State University, officials are taking a different approach, using a financial incentive to push students to get more educated about their finances.

— jillian berman, WSJ, "Colleges Try to Help Students Manage Their Finances," 22 Oct. 2017
And consumers now, because of the online travel agencies, the Expedias and the Pricelines of the world, have become much more educated about price.

— joe pinsker, The Atlantic, "How the Hotel Industry Views Its Future (and Airbnb)," 21 Sep. 2017
But Mexico today is richer, more educated and more globally connected than in 1994, when NAFTA (a brainchild of Ronald Reagan, by the way) came into being.

— jon talton, The Seattle Times, "Hurricane Donald takes aim at NAFTA," 6 Sep. 2017
Poorer, less educated Americans living in rural areas are falling further behind.

— derek thompson, The Atlantic, "In the Future, Everybody Will Be Taking Care of Old People," 26 Oct. 2017
These storylines exemplify the broader concerns held among educated and prosperous white Americans of the time about the likelihood that their next generation would be able to retain status atop American society.

— paul ringel, Smithsonian, "Turn-of-the-Century Kid’s Books Taught Wealthy, White Boys the Virtues of Playing Football," 15 Sep. 2017
The only people who should even consider adopting from foster care need to have thoroughly investigated and become educated in trauma, abuse and attachment issues, and to have examined their own personal capabilities, motives and resources.

— carolyn hax, Detroit Free Press, "How to respond to the question ‘Are you planning to have kids?’," 12 Sep. 2017
Voice commands and video are seen as critical to bringing the mobile internet to the world’s next billion users, many of them poorer and less educated.

— li yuan, WSJ, "Chinese Prefer the Sound of Silence When Getting Messages From Mom," 7 Sep. 2017
These new movements have exposed the deepest rifts in contemporary society, between rich and poor, between educated and uneducated, between whites and non-whites.

— stephen marche, Esquire, "Why the 2016 Election, Like Brexit, Is Really a Generational War," 29 June 2016

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