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literateur

literateur is the alternative spelling of litterateur.

Meaning of litterateur

Noun

litterateur (plural litterateurs)

  1. A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
    • […]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.1877, William Herman (pseudonym; Ambrose Bierce), The Dance of Death, pages 7–8

Forms of literateur

pluralliterateurs

Questions about literateur

What is literateur the alternative spelling of?
Literateur is the alternative spelling of litterateur.

Words near literateur in the dictionary

  1. literately
  2. literateness
  3. literates
  4. literatesque
  5. literatesqueness
  6. literateur
  7. literateurs
  8. literateuse
  9. literateuses
  10. literati
  11. literatim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: literateur (page history and authors); litterateur (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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