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Literati : (noun)
1: the literary intelligentsia
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Literati : \Lit`e*ra"ti\, n. pl. [See Literatus.]
Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
--Craik.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Literatus \Lit`e*ra"tus\, n.; pl. Literati. [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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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