Definition of "literateur" [literateur]

• Alternative spelling of litterateur. (noun)

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• ""Tom Boyle was a total entertainment, rock 'n' roll literateur, and Laurie Colwin was urbane and funny in her New Yorker mode, and Frank Conroy who'd been around forever and, you know, ran the Iowa Writers 'Workshop, was like Perry Como or Tony Bennett: He was just smooth as silk.""
• "Thus, by the time he encountered Faulkner, he was twice a B.A., a sophisticate who had traveled to the North, had seen New Haven and New York, and was, moreover, a literateur."
• "But as I learned that he was the son of a French _literateur_ of some eminence whom I had met in Paris, and as I had conceived a favourable opinion of the young soldier's gallantry, I gave him his parole and sent him back to his family, who, I think, were Provencals."