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chatterati

/ ˌtʃætəˈrɑtiː /

plural noun

  1. informal.
    another word for chattering classes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chatterati1

C20: from chatter + -ati as in literati
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Example Sentences

The reason for that obsession is, of course, the cultural dominance of HBO’s “Succession,” at least among the chatterati.

Yet critics, including myself, now feel free to weigh in anyway, and neither long distance nor review embargoes stop the busy fingers of the chatterati.

Morris is correct that the current hierarchies of celebrity depend somewhat on moral valuations, elevating certain figures, such as Beyoncé, beyond criticism—at least among the professional chatterati.

From Slate

They even dared to do what few in the left-leaning chatterati were willing to do: hold the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates up to scrutiny.

While the soccer chatterati in at least 32 other countries is discussing the upcoming World Cup, the talk in the US is about a vote this Saturday to elect a new president of US soccer’s governing body.

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