literatilit‧e‧ra‧ti /ˌlɪtəˈrɑːti/ noun literatiOrigin:
1600-1700 Early Italian litterati, from Latin litteratus; ➔ LITERATE - He belonged to a family of literati.
- I disagree that all us members of the literati do not suffer from the continuing triumph of the political and economic statusquo.
- I played with a few of the new titles, with lots of technical assistance from some computer literati.
- It became a centre for the young, the radical, and the literati of that city.
- Of the literati in their thrall, Budd Schulberg emerged as the writer who told you most about the bouts.
- The Drummond Hotel A favourite haunt of the literati.
- They soon recognized the humble status of these priests and so adopted the more revered robes of the literati.
- Where the transitions were more subtle, as in changing cultural conceptions among the literati, the Jesuits were less successful.
nounliteratureliteracy ≠ illiteracyilliterateliteratiadjectiveliteraryliterate ≠ illiterate