littérateur
noun
a literary person, especially a writer of literary works.
littérateurs
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pluralof littérateur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The young, often first-generation Jewish-American littérateurs of that period — Alfred Kazin, Grace Paley, Irving Howe among them — took on a distinctly strident attitude: Literature, to them, was a form of citizenship.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2018
In time, Sartre argued, the littérateurs began to buck the bourgeoisie and to set literature up “as being, in principle, independent of any sort of ideology”.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2017
The most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Because," added Meryon, "there is a society of littérateurs, very clever, very powerful, and knowing all the ropes."
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
To numerous other littérateurs, of greater and less merit, he sought and obtained introductions, and of them gives minute and interesting details.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
