Litterateur

Quick meaning: Litterateur is a noun meaning A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.

Meaning

A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.

Example Sentences

[…]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.

Word Forms

• litterateurs
• literateur

Synonyms for litterateur

Depending on context, synonyms include essayist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include essayist, literateur, literator, literate, literarist, litterer.

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