Crossword clues for literati
literati
- Intellectuals initially like sex both ways, interrupted by hearsay regularly
- Top select group, one defending art, perhaps
- Smart set
- Well-read folks
- Well-read individuals
- Scholarly sorts
- Learned people
- Educated ones
- Deep thinkers
- Reading class?
- Book-review types
- Writers and editors
- Well-read ones
- The well-read intelligentsia
- Set of books?
- Ones who do things by the book?
- Men and women of letters
- Highbrow bookish types
- Erudite folks
- Educators, writers, etc
- Bookish set
- Highbrows
- Book review types
- Bookish bunch
- Reading group
- *Book reviewers, for example
- Book set?
- Contributors to The Paris Review, e.g.
- The literary intelligentsia
- Scholarly people
- Bookish folk
- Intellectuals
- Intelligentsia
- Those well read
- Educated class
- Learned lot
- Well-read people
- Well-educated readers
- Latin repetition not working for bookworms
- Large copy, mostly one for regular readers?
- People of letters
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Literati \Lit`e*ra"ti\ (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[=e]; l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[imac]), n. pl. [See Literatus.] Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
--Craik.
Literatus \Lit`e*ra"tus\ (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[u^]s; l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[u^]s), n.; pl. Literati (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[=e]; l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[imac]). [L. litteratus, literatus.] A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a
literatus may chance to be maimed.
--De Quincey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"men and women of letters; the learned class as a whole," 1620s, from Latin literati/litterati, plural of literatus/litteratus "lettered" (see literate). The proper singular would be literatus, though Italian literato (1704) sometimes is used.
Wiktionary
n. Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature
WordNet
n. the literary intelligentsia
Wikipedia
Literati may refer to:
- Intellectuals or those who read and comment on literature
- The scholar-bureaucrats or literati of imperial China
- Literati painting, also known as the Southern School of painting, developed by Chinese literati
- The literati style of bonsai, consisting of thin, elegant trees in the calligraphic style of literati painting
- Confucianism, known as the School of Literati
- The game Literati, a variant of Scrabble developed by Yahoo! Games
Usage examples of "literati".
Those three literati were the Marquis Maffei, the Abbe Conti, and Pierre Jacques Martelli, who became enemies, according to public rumour, owing to the belief entertained by each of them that he possessed the favours of the actress, and, being men of learning, they fought with the pen.
New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome.
I learned from him the secret which several young French literati employ in order to make certain of the perfection of their prose, when they want to write anything requiring as perfect a style as they can obtain, such as panegyrics, funeral orations, eulogies, dedications, etc.
New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome.
Stanhope, Sir Robert Walpole, the great Earl Camden, Outred the mathematician, Boyle the philosopher, Waller the poet, the illustrious Earl of Chatham, Lord Lyttelton, Gray the poet, and an endless list of shining characters have owned Eton for their scholastic nursery: not to mention the various existing literati who have received their education at this celebrated college.
The tale has relations with subliterary forms of pornography, ballad and dream, and it has not been dealt with kindly by literati.
She is now the President of the Academy of Science, and I suppose the literati must look upon her as another Minerva, or else they would be ashamed to have a woman at their head.
At this time Sir Joshua himself had received no information concerning the authour, except being assured by one of our most eminent literati, that it was clear its authour did not know the Greek tragedies in the original.
Those three literati were the Marquis Maffei, the Abbe Conti, and Pierre Jacques Martelli, who became enemies, according to public rumour, owing to the belief entertained by each of them that he possessed the favours of the actress, and, being men of learning, they fought with the pen.
I learned from him the secret which several young French literati employ in order to make certain of the perfection of their prose, when they want to write anything requiring as perfect a style as they can obtain, such as panegyrics, funeral orations, eulogies, dedications, etc.
For centuries, iambic pentameter had been a preferred poetic meter of outspoken literati across the globe, from the ancient Greek writer Archilochus to Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Voltaire-bold souls who chose to write their social commentaries in a meter that many of the day believed had mystical properties.