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Litterateur

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A literary man; one who is engaged in literary work; one who adopts literature as a profession.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a writer of literary works

Word Usage

"When the public is eager and interested, reviewers must minister to its wants; and the genuine 'litterateur' is too much in the habit of acquiring his knowledge from the book he judges -- as the"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

author writer

Hyponym

Elia lamb charles lamb

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

literatus

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

bookseller bookworm ferromagnetism exegete tailoress