litterateur

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Pronunciation

/ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/ (UK)

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/ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/ (UK) · /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtʊɚ/ (US)

Definition of litterateur

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noun

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

“[…]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.”
“Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (“critic”). Doublet of literator.

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