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literati |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Literati \Lit`e*ra"ti\, n. pl [See {Literatus}.] Learned or literary men. See {Literatus}. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. --Craik. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Literatus \Lit`e*ra"tus\, n.; pl {Literati}. [L. litteratus, literatus.] A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. --De Quincey. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: literati n : the literary intelligentsia
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