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
So many French littérateurs give me the idea that they don't go nearer the Greek authors than the Latin translations.…
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The Emperor Napoleon had come to that point when he regarded as his enemies freedom of thought and freedom of conscience amongst his subjects still suspected of independence, littérateurs or bishops.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
