| 单词 | man of letters |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman of letters man of letters n. [compare French homme de lettres] a man of learning, a scholar; a professional writer, esp. one having a variety of literary or intellectual interests. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man scholarc1600 man of letters1645 literator1710 literarian1740 literary gent1773 literary1801 littérateur1806 1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 146 There were likewise the effigies of the most illustrious men of letters. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 200. ⁋2 Men of Letters know too much to make good Husbands. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 138 It was sufficient to shew me that he was a man of letters. 1811 W. Scott Misc. Prose Wks. (1870) IV. 191 Lord Minto, himself a man of letters, a poet and a native of Teviotdale. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 131 A man of letters whose life was tormented by censors of the press. 1937 D. Thomas Let. 30 Oct. (1987) 262 I've been receiving strange requests from magazines... Do you think this means, at last, that I'm a man of letters? 1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) iii. 80 Imitation taught Renaissance painters, sculptors, architects, and men of letters how to reanimate ancient models and yet also improve on them. 2009 L. McMurtry Literary Life v. 30 As I was writing this memoir word came that John Updike died—a great man of letters is gone. < as lemmas |
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