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litteratrice

litteratrice is the female equivalent 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

Synonyms of litteratrice

Forms of litteratrice

plurallitteratrices

Origin of litteratrice

From French littératrice.

Questions about litteratrice

What is litteratrice the female equivalent of?
Litteratrice is the female equivalent of litterateur.

Words near litteratrice in the dictionary

  1. litterateur
  2. litterateurs
  3. litterateuse
  4. litterateuses
  5. litterati
  6. litteratrice
  7. litteratrices
  8. litterbag
  9. litterbags
  10. litterbasket
  11. litterbaskets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: litteratrice (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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