literati

• POS: Noun Plural
• HYPHEN: lit=e=ra=ti

CIDE DICTIONARY

literati, n. pl. [See Literatus.].

 Learned or literary men. See Literatus.  [1913 Webster]
"Shakespearean commentators, and other literati."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

literati, n.pl.
1 men of letters.
2 the learned class.

Etymology

L, pl. of literatus (as LETTER)

ROGET THESAURUS

literati

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.