Man Of Letters Definition

men-of-letters
noun
A writer, scholar, editor, etc., esp. one whose work is in the field of literature.
Webster's New World
A man who is devoted to literary or scholarly pursuits.
American Heritage
Attributive form of man of letters.
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Other Word Forms of Man Of Letters

Noun

Singular:
man of letters
Plural:
men-of-letters

Man Of Letters Sentence Examples

  • Perhaps the most important of these popular thinkers was Marcus Tullius Cicero - no great philosopher, but a graceful and effective man of letters.

  • Bain's life was mainly that of a thinker and a man of letters.

  • This was creditable to both parties, for Lamartine, both as a distinguished man of letters and as a past servant of the state, had every claim to the bounty of his country.

  • Every Italian artist and man of letters in an age of singular intellectual brilliancy tasted or hoped to taste of his bounty.

  • In his later years his small alert figure was one of the most distinguished in the society of Berlin, and every honour open to a man of letters was conferred upon him.

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