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Synonyms for litterateur

Most common

essayist literator

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Noun

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.

Related words

Other spellings
literateur littérateur

Forms

Plural
litterateurs → essayists, literators…

Example sentences

  • essayist Mary became famous as an essayist and critic.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
litterateurfalling
essayiststeady
literatorsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

8 letters
essayist3
9 letters
literator

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (essayist3 = 3 syllables).