Definition of "litterateur" [‖Lit•te•ra•teur]

• A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer. (noun)

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• "When the public is eager and interested, reviewers must minister to its wants; and the genuine 'litterateur' is too much in the habit of acquiring his knowledge from the book he judges -- as the"
• "By spelling "litterateur" and "basilica," Christopher Smith, of Monett, became the champion of the 2009 Bee - a fifth grade student from Trinity Lutheran School in Freistatt."
• "I had no idea that the Barn Man had become such a litterateur in his years of obscurity."