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Meaning of LITERATI

Pronunciation:  `litu'râtee

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 Definition: [n]  the literary intelligentsia
 
 See Also: clerisy, intelligentsia

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lit`e*ra"ti\, n. pl. [See {Literatus}.]
Learned or literary men. See {Literatus}.

      Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
                                               --Craik.

 

 

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