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litterateur

/lit-er-uh-tur; French lee-tey-ra-tœr/US // ˌlɪt ər əˈtɜr; French li teɪ raˈtœr //UK // (ˌlɪtərəˈtɜː, French literatœr) //

文学家,文艺工作者,文学工作者,文人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural lit·té·ra·teurs [lit-er-uh-turz; French lee-tey-ra-tœr]. /ˌlɪt ər əˈtɜrz; French li teɪ raˈtœr/.

    • : a literary person, especially a writer of literary works.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He is above all else a litterateur who is addressing an audience with a decided taste for good literature.

  • No Judeo-German litterateur has ever been able to make more than a scanty living, and that only sporadically, out of his books.

  • The following observation by an eminent eye specialist and litterateur illustrates the opening paragraph of this chapter.

  • She was the widow of a celebrated litterateur and was herself well known as a brilliant but shallow writer.

  • And it would be thus the architect, not the litterateur, that would be permanently remembered.