litterateur
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/
  • (America) IPA: /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtʊɚ/
Noun
  1. A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
    • 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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