lettered Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb win an athletic letter
    letter.
  2. verb set down or print with letters
    letter.
  3. verb mark letters on or mark with letters
    letter.
  4. adjective satellite highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
    knowing; knowledgeable; well-read; learned; well-educated.
    • knowing instructors
    • a knowledgeable critic
    • a knowledgeable audience

WordNet

Let"tered adjective
Definitions
  1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered?" Shak.
    The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.
  2. Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A lettered education." Collier.
  3. Inscribed or stamped with letters. Addison.

Webster 1913