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Literator   Listen
noun
Literator  n.  
1.
One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
2.
A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. "That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting."
3.
A learned person; a literatus.





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"Literator" Quotes from Famous Books



... litterateur. If a synonym for 'man of letters' is demanded why not find it in 'literator', which Lockhart did not hesitate to employ in the Life of Scott. It is pleasant to believe that communard, which was prevalent fifty years ago after the burning of the Tuileries, has been succeeded by 'communist' and ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 5 - The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems • Society for Pure English


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