litterateur
See also: littérateur
English
Alternative forms
- literateur, littérateur
Etymology
From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (“critic”). Doublet of literator.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/
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- (US) IPA(key): /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtʊɚ/
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
Noun
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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Derived terms
- litterateuse
Translations
person engaged in various literary works
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