litterateur means A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
litterateur is pronounced /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/.
Why “litterateur” is a great word
LITTERATEUR — [Noun] A person devoted to the study, criticism, and elegant discussion of literature. From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor ("grammarian, critic"), from litterae ("letters, literature"). First attested in English circa 1806. Unlike "author," which denotes a creator of original works, or "scholar," which implies formal academic study, the litterateur is defined by a cultivated, omnivorous life within the republic of letters. It is the hand annotating a first edition with a fine-nibbed pen, the voice in a quarterly review dissecting a novel's form, the conversationalist for whom the salon is a natural habitat—a connoisseur of the architecture of thought, presiding over a civilization of the written word.
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- A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.“[…]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.”