literate

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Able to read and write.
• adjective Knowledgeable or educated in a particular field or fields.
• adjective Familiar with literature; literary.
• adjective Well-written; polished.
• noun A person who is literate.
• noun People who are literate, considered as a group.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Having a knowledge of letters; possessing education; instructed: opposed to illiterate.
• Of or pertaining to letters; learned; literary.
• Marked with short, angulated lines resembling letters: applied to the surfaces of shells and insects.
• noun A man of letters; a learned or literary man.
• noun An educated man who has not taken a university degree; especially, a candidate for holy orders who has not been educated at a university.
• noun One who can read and write: opposed to illiterate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.
• noun engraving One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.
• noun A literary man.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Able to read and write; having literacy.
• adjective Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
• adjective Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
• noun A person who is able to read and write

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a person who can read and write
• adjective knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields
• adjective versed in literature; dealing with literature
• adjective able to read and write