litterateur

Definition

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

Etymology

From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (“critic”). Doublet of literator.

Example Sentences

• "[…]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism."
• "Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser."