well-read

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well-read (comparative better-read or more well-read, superlative best-read or most well-read)

  1. Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively.
    • 1965, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Ballad of a Thin Man”, in Highway 61 Revisited:
      You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books / You are very well-read / It's well known

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