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belletrist

belletrist noun: a person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres.

Noun

belletrist (plural belletrists)

  1. A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres

belletrist meaning in Tamil

belletrist in Tamil

கலை இலக்கிய ஆர்வலர்

Forms of belletrist

pluralbelletrists

Origin of belletrist

Borrowed from German Belletrist, coined by Goethe. Equivalent to belles-lettres + -ist.

Words formed from belletrist

Questions about belletrist

What does belletrist mean?
Belletrist means a person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres.
What is belletrist in Tamil?
Belletrist in Tamil is கலை இலக்கிய ஆர்வலர். See Belletrist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is belletrist?
Belletrist is a noun.
What is the plural of belletrist?
The plural of belletrist is belletrists.

Words near belletrist in the dictionary

  1. belles-lettres
  2. belles-lettristic
  3. belleter
  4. belleters
  5. belletrism
  6. belletrist
  7. belletristic
  8. belletristical
  9. belletristically
  10. belletrists
  11. bellettrist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belletrist (page history and authors); belletrist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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