Usually means: Ability to read and write.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word literacy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. literacy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. literacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. literacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. literacy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. literacy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Literacy, literacy: Wordnik
  7. literacy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. literacy: Wiktionary
  9. literacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. literacy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. literacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Literacy, literacy: Dictionary.com
  13. literacy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Literacy (journal), Literacy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Literacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. literacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. literacy: Rhymezone
  18. literacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. literacy: Free Dictionary
  20. literacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. literacy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. literacy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. literacy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literacy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. literacy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The ability to read and write.
noun:  (by extension) The ability to understand and evaluate something.

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