Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Literati"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Literati \Lit`e*ra"ti\, n. pl. [See {Literatus}.]
Learned or literary men. See {Literatus}.
Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
--Craik.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Literatus \Lit`e*ra"tus\, n.; pl. {Literati}. [L. litteratus,
literatus.]
A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly
used in the plural.
Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a
literatus may chance to be maimed. --De Quincey.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
literati
n : the literary intelligentsia
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