litterateur
noun
lit·ter·a·teur
ˌli-tə-rə-ˈtər 
ˌli-trə-,
-ˈtu̇r
variants
or littérateur
: a literary person
especially
: a professional writer
Examples of litterateur in a Sentence
Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent.
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
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Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.
—Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
A similar lesson awaits the young litterateur who insists that a good book should move not only the head and the heart but also the loins.
—The Dirty Men and Women Of Esquire, Esquire, 29 Mar. 2017
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Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.
—Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
A similar lesson awaits the young litterateur who insists that a good book should move not only the head and the heart but also the loins.
—The Dirty Men and Women Of Esquire, Esquire, 29 Mar. 2017
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“Litterateur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/litterateur. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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