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Webster 1913 Edition
Literator
1.
One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
Burke.
2.
A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular
literator
or black-letter “ bibliomane,” simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.
3.
A learned person; a literatus.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Literator
LIT'ERATOR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
literator
literator
English
Noun
literator (plural literators)
- A literary person, a man of letters.
- One who writes professionally.
- A learned person.
Synonyms
Translations
literary person
one who writes professionally
learned person
References
- literator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913