litterateur
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See also: littérateur
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (“critic”). Doublet of literator.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtʊɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
litterateur (plural litterateurs, feminine litterateuse or litteratrice)
- A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
- 1877, William Herman (pseudonym; Ambrose Bierce), The Dance of Death, pages 7–8:
- […] ; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
person engaged in various literary works
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