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Webster 1913 Edition
Litterateur
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Litˊteˊraˊteur′
(lē̍ˊtā̍ˊrȧˊtẽr′)
, Noun.
[F.]
One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.
“ Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another.” C. Kingsley.
Definition 2024
litterateur
litterateur
See also: littérateur
English
Alternative forms
Noun
litterateur (plural litterateurs, feminine litterateuse or litteratrice)
- A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
- 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 88, footnote 4:
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.
- 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 88, footnote 4:
Translations
person engaged in various literary works
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