Usually means: Knowledgeable across diverse literary genres.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word well read:

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  1. well read: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. well-read: Merriam-Webster
  3. well read: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. well-read: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. well-read, well-read: Collins English Dictionary
  6. well-read: Vocabulary.com
  7. well-read: Wordnik
  8. well-read: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. well-read: Wiktionary
  10. well-read: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. well-read: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. well-read: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. well-read, well read: Dictionary.com
  14. well-read: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. well-read: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Well-read: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Well-read: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. well-read: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. well-read: Rhymezone
  20. Well-read: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. well-read: FreeDictionary.org
  22. well-read: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. well-read: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-read: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-read: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Well read)

▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of well-read [Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively.]

Similar:
learned, knowledgeable, informed, enlightened, well-educated, knowing, educated, lettered, read through, reading, more...

Opposite:
uninformed, ignorant, uneducated, illiterate

Phrases:
one who is educated and well read, well read person, more...
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Similar:
learned, knowledgeable, informed, enlightened, well-educated, knowing, educated, lettered, read through, reading, more...

Opposite:
uninformed, ignorant, uneducated, illiterate

Phrases:
one who is educated and well read, well read person, more...



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