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Definition 2024

man_of_letters

man of letters

See also: man-of-letters

English

Noun

man of letters ‎(plural men of letters)

a literary man

Translations

a literary man

Chinese:
Mandarin: 文學家 (zh), 文学家 (zh) ‎(wénxuéjiā) (any gender), 文人 (zh) ‎(wénrén)
French: homme de lettres (fr) m, littérateur (fr) m
German: Literat (de) m, Literatin (de) f
Interlingua: homine de litteras
Irish: litrí m
Old Irish: litrid m
Japanese: 文学者 (ja) ‎(ぶんがくしゃ, bungakusha) (any gender)

Manx: dooinney lettyraght m
Portuguese: homem das letras m
Russian: литера́тор (ru) m ‎(literátor) (any gender)
Scottish Gaelic: sruth m, sruthan m, saoidh m, neach-litreachais m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: књижевник m

Roman: književnik (sh) m
Spanish: hombre de letras (es)
Swedish: skriftställare c, litteratör (sv) c (archaic), skribent (sv) c, författare (sv) c, lärd man c