litterateur

CIDE DICTIONARY

litterateur, n. [F.].

 One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus.  C. Kingsley.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

litterateur

academician, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, bookman, classicist, clerk, coauthor, collaborator, colossus of knowledge, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, genius, ghost, ghostwriter, giant of learning, humanist, humorist, inditer, learned clerk, learned man, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, logographer, lover of learning, magazine writer, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, penwoman, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, poet, polyhistor, polymath, prose writer, pundit, reviewer, savant, scenario writer, scenarist, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, student, technical writer, walking encyclopedia, word painter, wordsmith, writer

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litterateur

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Scholar

N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.