literacy
Syllables: li·ter·a·cyUK/ˈlɪtəɹəsi//ˈlɪtəɹəsi/
literacy noun: the ability to read and write.
Noun
literacy (countable and uncountable, plural literacies)
- 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%...
- The ability to understand and evaluate something.
- computer literacy
- media literacy
literacy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
literacy in Hindi
- ability to read and write
- साक्षरता sākṣartā
- understanding of something
- साक्षरता sākṣartā
literacy in Tamil
- கல்வியறிவு, கல்வியறிவுத்திறன்
literacy in Marathi
- साक्षरता
literacy in Urdu
- literacy
- ادبیت adbiyat
More languagesFewer languages
- literacy in Bengali
- অক্ষরজ্ঞান ôkkhôrgẏãn
- literacy in Telugu
- అక్షరాస్యత akṣarāsyata
- literacy in Malayalam
- സാക്ഷരത sākṣarata
- literacy in Kannada
- ಬರಹದರಿವು, ಓದಿನರಿವು
- literacy in Punjabi
- ਸਾਖਰਤਾ
- literacy in Gujarati
- સાક્ષરતા
- literacy in Odia
- ସାକ୍ଷରତା
- literacy in Nepali
- साक्षरता
- literacy in Tagalog
- kanulatan
- literacy in Arabic
- مَحْو الْأُمِّيَّة maḥw al-ʔummiyya
- literacy in Indonesian
- literasi
- literacy in Persian
- باسوادی bâsavâdi
- literacy in Thai
- การรู้หนังสือ
Examples of literacy in a sentence
- Prof Alan McKee, who led the project, argues that young adults should be taught “porn literacy” to help them “read porn well” and look for healthy and ethical depictions of sex.2023 June 9, Tory Shepherd, “Can pornography be healthy? If it follows six rules, perhaps”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- "He told me to help others when I could, so I launched a scholarship program," says Diakabana, who now lives in Switzerland and is co-founder of The Luminous Agency, which focuses on digital literacy.2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR:
Antonyms of literacy
Forms of literacy
| plural | literacies |
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Origin of literacy
From liter(ate) + -acy.
Words formed from literacy
- aliteracy
- antiliteracy
- biliteracy
- carbon literacy
- cineliteracy
- computeracy
- computer literacy
- cultural literacy
- cyberliteracy
- data literacy
- disciplinary literacy
- ecoliteracy
- electracy
- e-literacy
- emergent literacy
- food literacy
- health literacy
- hyperliteracy
- information literacy
- mediacy
- media literacy
- metaliteracy
- multiliteracy
- pluriliteracy
- preliteracy
- protoliteracy
- quasiliteracy
- semiliteracy
- sexual literacy
- subliteracy
- technoliteracy
- transliteracy
- triliteracy
Questions about literacy
- What does literacy mean?
- Literacy means the ability to read and write.
- What is literacy in Hindi?
- Literacy in Hindi is साक्षरता (sākṣartā). See Literacy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use literacy in a sentence?
- Prof Alan McKee, who led the project, argues that young adults should be taught “porn literacy” to help them “read porn well” and look for healthy and ethical depictions of sex.
- What part of speech is literacy?
- Literacy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce literacy?
- Literacy is pronounced /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of literacy?
- The plural of literacy is literacies.
Words near literacy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: literacy (page history and authors); literacy (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); literacy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ادبیت (Urdu) (page history and authors); অক্ষরজ্ঞান (Bengali) (page history and authors); literacy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); literacy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); literacy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); literacy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); literacy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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