literati
pronunciation
How to pronounce literati in British English:
UK [ˌlɪtəˈrɑ:ti]
How to pronounce literati in American English:
US [ˌlɪtəˈrɑti]
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- Noun:
- the literary intelligentsia
Word Origin
- literati (n.)
- "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.
Example
- 1. Eventually the river curves north again into riverbend , popular with students , glitterati and literati .
- 2. This may be fabricated out of the literati are , but let people feel that it is indeed touching .
- 3. One of the most prominent literati , ai weiwei , is among dozens of activists the security forces have rounded up recently .
- 4. America 's manned spaceflight holding pattern has been accompanied by the rise of china 's space program a microcosm of the rome-syndrome meta discussion preoccupying the american literati .