well-read

• well read

• IPA^(key): /ˌwɛl ˈɹɛd/

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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, “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

• book-read
• read up (adjectival form)

• wallered