Usually means: Unable to read and write.
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  1. illiterates: Merriam-Webster
  2. illiterates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. illiterates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Illiterates, illiterates: Wordnik
  5. illiterates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. illiterates: Wiktionary
  7. illiterates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiterates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiterates: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illiterates: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See illiterate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (illiterate)

adjective:  Unable to read and write.
adjective:  Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
adjective:  Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
adjective:  Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
noun:  An illiterate person, one either not able to read and write or not knowing how.
noun:  A person ignorant about a given subject. (The relevant subject is usually named as a noun adjunct.)
▸ Also see illiterate


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