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literacies

literacies is the plural of literacy.

Meaning of literacy

Noun

literacy (countable and uncountable, plural literacies)

  1. The ability to read and write.
    • Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday (September 8, 2025) declared Himachal as a “fully literate State” on the occasion of International Literary Day. […] Journey from 7% to 99.30%: The Chief Minister said Himachal Pradesh had reached this goal well before the scheduled...2025 September 8, “Himachal Pradesh becomes ‘fully literate State’. CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu says the literacy rate in Himachal reached 99.30%, which is higher than the national benchmark of 95%...
  2. (broadly) The ability to understand and evaluate something.
    • computer literacy

Phrases with literacies

Questions about literacies

What is literacies the plural of?
Literacies is the plural of literacy.

Words near literacies in the dictionary

  1. litell
  2. liteness
  3. Liteni
  4. liter
  5. literacide
  6. literacies
  7. literacy
  8. literae humaniores
  9. literage
  10. literages
  11. literal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: literacies (page history and authors); literacy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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