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单词 literati
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Definition of literati in English:

literati

plural noun ˌlɪtəˈrɑːtiˌlɪdəˈrɑdi
  • Well-educated people who are interested in literature.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The national culture of literati who regarded him as the most important figure of the area built a shrine for him that reflected their perceptions of his status.
    • This gives an idea of the variety of methods of broadcasting their ideas that the Scottish literati used, from the pamphlet to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    • She's not a great fan of theirs either, and if her success proves anything, it's that fiction has been reclaimed from the literati.
    • Most of these ‘fighting Brahmins’ were neither scholars nor literati.
    • His work has been praised by such respected literati as Muriel Spark, J. G. Ballard, William H. Gass, James Hynes and Peter Matthiessen.
    • The story appears to have been popular among the literati of the Heian period.
    • We do not see the big thick books which were bloody boring and of no real interest either to the literati or the hoi polloi.
    • I would tend to give him more credence if he was living in Scotland rather than being one of the London literati.
    • And there is plenty of humor at a drinking party of Bolivian literati.
    • The historical dramatist had worse to fear than the sneers of the literati.
    • One of three brothers renowned for their abilities as essayists and Confucian literati, he earned the highest degree in the examination system in 1592.
    • No scholar can describe it, the intellectuals cannot know it, the literati and writers cannot recognise it.
    • The apparent juxtaposition of literati and merchant culture at opposite ends of the east wall is misleading.
    • That she's abandoning a decent husband because he doesn't fit with the literati and power-brokers among whom she now flits is both despicable and inevitable.
    • The move has horrified the nation's literati in a country where serious literature is a serious business and popular with the masses.
    • The elite literati too adopted the fashion, and greatly influenced the designs.
    • The first, and the more obvious one, is that it has drawn high praise from every echelon of the British literati, winning both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for poetry this year.
    • The visiting literati included the poet laureate Ted Hughes and his wife, Sylvia Plath.
    • Unfortunately, much of her work has been ignored, partly because she was eclipsed, as a woman, by the male literati of the Harlem Renaissance.
    • He notes that the relations between the literati (mostly commoners) and this nobility were complex.
    Synonyms
    intellectuals, intelligent people, academics, scholars, learned people, culturati, men and women of letters, cognoscenti, illuminati, highbrows, bluestockings, thinkers, brains

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin, plural of literatus 'acquainted with letters', from littera (see letter).

Rhymes

Amati, arty, Astarte, castrati, chapatti, clarty, coati, ex parte, Frascati, glitterati, Gujarati, hearty, illuminati, karate, Kiribati, lathi, Marathi, obbligati (US obligati), party, tarty
 
 

Definition of literati in US English:

literati

plural nounˌlɪdəˈrɑdiˌlidəˈrädē
  • Well-educated people who are interested in literature.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • That she's abandoning a decent husband because he doesn't fit with the literati and power-brokers among whom she now flits is both despicable and inevitable.
    • No scholar can describe it, the intellectuals cannot know it, the literati and writers cannot recognise it.
    • She's not a great fan of theirs either, and if her success proves anything, it's that fiction has been reclaimed from the literati.
    • The historical dramatist had worse to fear than the sneers of the literati.
    • The first, and the more obvious one, is that it has drawn high praise from every echelon of the British literati, winning both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for poetry this year.
    • The story appears to have been popular among the literati of the Heian period.
    • The national culture of literati who regarded him as the most important figure of the area built a shrine for him that reflected their perceptions of his status.
    • And there is plenty of humor at a drinking party of Bolivian literati.
    • His work has been praised by such respected literati as Muriel Spark, J. G. Ballard, William H. Gass, James Hynes and Peter Matthiessen.
    • The elite literati too adopted the fashion, and greatly influenced the designs.
    • This gives an idea of the variety of methods of broadcasting their ideas that the Scottish literati used, from the pamphlet to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    • Most of these ‘fighting Brahmins’ were neither scholars nor literati.
    • The move has horrified the nation's literati in a country where serious literature is a serious business and popular with the masses.
    • Unfortunately, much of her work has been ignored, partly because she was eclipsed, as a woman, by the male literati of the Harlem Renaissance.
    • One of three brothers renowned for their abilities as essayists and Confucian literati, he earned the highest degree in the examination system in 1592.
    • The visiting literati included the poet laureate Ted Hughes and his wife, Sylvia Plath.
    • The apparent juxtaposition of literati and merchant culture at opposite ends of the east wall is misleading.
    • I would tend to give him more credence if he was living in Scotland rather than being one of the London literati.
    • We do not see the big thick books which were bloody boring and of no real interest either to the literati or the hoi polloi.
    • He notes that the relations between the literati (mostly commoners) and this nobility were complex.
    Synonyms
    intellectuals, intelligent people, academics, scholars, learned people, culturati, men and women of letters, cognoscenti, illuminati, highbrows, bluestockings, thinkers, brains

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin, plural of literatus ‘acquainted with letters’, from littera (see letter).

 
 
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