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Meanings of littérateur in English
Person who works on literature.
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Examples for "literary"
Examples for "literary"
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Similarly you could consider literary sector as part of the 'comics industry'.
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This simple fact is, of course, the basis of all literary education.
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It points the way toward the literary future, as those things do.
4
His literary views and topics still remain a relevant in today's society.
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The questions given for debate may be discussed by the literary society.
1
Gorky for a Russian literator, Maruki a photographer of Shibaku, and komeno-naruki (rice) a life-giver, eh?
2
"Goruki sounds like the name of a Russian literator," said Red Shirt.
3
"Yes, just like a Russian literator," Clown at once seconded Red Shirt.
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He is the foremost man of letters in this country by far.
2
The agriculturist talks constantly of bullocks-theman of letters constantly of books.
3
Those long lines announced the man of letters, the writer, the workman.
4
The manager started to speak, but the man of letters anticipated him.
5
Gissing's career as a man of letters was the product of this.
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He is a novelist, story writer, dramatist and literary scholar.
2
A well-known literary scholar who died recently was thus described by one of his former students:
3
In 1958 she married the literary scholar Jonathan Wordsworth, the great-great-great nephew of the poet William Wordsworth.
4
That Dad is a literary scholar, currently working on an appreciation of Ted Hughes, is not lost on him.
5
No, these supposed literary scholars were obviously quite incapable of reading between the lines.
1
The priest departs, the divine literatus comes.
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As the world's premier woman of letters, she is a living legend.
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If anyone exemplifies the 21st-century woman of letters it's Lydia Davis.
3
No one was ever less consciously a woman of letters.
4
Ah, well, you're the woman of letters, Miss Faithfull.
5
A woman of letters, perhaps?
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We are hunters again, trappers, adventurers bold, while we study you, and the blithe barbarian wakens even in the weary person of letters.
Usage of littérateur in English
1
The most terrible of all things is a German aesthetic litterateur.
2
A litterateur cannot understand me; only a complete man or a true artist can.
3
He was the first litterateur who ever paid attention to me as a poet.
4
But he is an editor as well as a litterateur.
5
Another view was held by Don Isaac Abarbanel, the famous Jewish statesman and litterateur.
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Guys, the celebrated Marseilles litterateur of the eighteenth century, was born with only one ear.
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M. Chodzko met there among others the historian and statesman Guizot, the litterateur Francois, and Madame Marliani.
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Algarotti, Francesco, a litterateur, friend of Voltaire.
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As woman, novelist, philosopher, litterateur, and conversationist, she has marked, if not equal, claims upon our attention.
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Only a great litterateur could have conceived such a passage: only a great orator could have so delivered it.
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He was a litterateur, a rhetorician, an idealist, where Spencer was a philosopher, a scientific man, and a rationalist.
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The litterateur is warning the menials that their charge is sacred; that the sheets he has produced are impossible to replace.
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No recluse he, no fine scholar, no polished litterateur, but a hard-headed, soft-hearted human man of the sturdy old Suffolk breed.
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Three of them were, like Gabriel, engineers, the fourth was a painter, and the fifth was a litterateur in a small way.
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A letter from a distinguished litterateur to Sir Morell Mackenzie gives a striking example of the idiosyncrasy to eggs transmitted through four generations.
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W.' And from that day William was accorded much of the deference due to a litterateur which the fates had hitherto denied him.
Frequent collocations
Littérateur through the time