单词 | illiterati |
释义 | illiteratin. With plural agreement. Illiterate, unlearned, or uneducated people. Cf. illiterate n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun] > illiterate person > collectively unlettered1449 illiterati1788 unliterate1893 1788 H. Walpole Let. 4 July (1905) XIV. 51 A lower species, indeed, is that of the scribes..who every night compose a journal for the satisfaction of such illiterati. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 608 Ye're the most tinkler~tongued pack of illiterati. 1962 Listener 22 Nov. 877/1 Weekly periodicals for the younger illiterati. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1788 |
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