Litterateur

//ˌlɪtəɹəˈtʊɚ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a writer of literary works wordnet

Etymology

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

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