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homme de lettres

homme de lettres noun: man of letters, a literary man.

Noun

homme de lettres (plural hommes de lettres)

  1. man of letters, a literary man

Forms of homme de lettres

pluralhommes de lettres

Origin of homme de lettres

Borrowed from French homme de lettres, from homme (“man”) + de (“of”) + lettres (“humanities, arts”).

Questions about homme de lettres

What does homme de lettres mean?
Homme de lettres means man of letters, a literary man.
What part of speech is homme de lettres?
Homme de lettres is a noun.
What is the plural of homme de lettres?
The plural of homme de lettres is hommes de lettres.

Words near homme de lettres in the dictionary

  1. Homlin
  2. HOMM
  3. hommage
  4. hommages
  5. Homme
  6. homme de lettres
  7. homme fatal
  8. homme fatale
  9. homme fatales
  10. Hommel
  11. Hommels

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