noun
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a man who can read and write letters; a literate person.
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a learned man; a man of letters.
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a tropical and sub-tropical bird with brilliant plumage, hooked bill, good imitator of the human speech; parrot.
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a poet whose compositions of poetical works are in ಅಕ್ಕರವೃತ್ತ, a metre regulated by number of syllables.