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/ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/ · noun
A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer..
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.
[…]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.
Use litterateur when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Litterateur means A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer..
Common synonyms include essayist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.
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