litterateur

litterateur

noun

Definition of LITTERATEUR

a person who creates a written work <Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent>

Synonyms litterateur (or littérateur), pen, penman, scribe, scrivener, writer

Related Words auteur, belletrist (also belle-lettrist), stylist, wordsmith; coauthor, coscenarist, cowriter; ghostwriter, hack, hatchet man, scribbler, wordmonger; biographer, hagiographer; autobiographer, memoirist, memorialist; fabulist, fictioneer, fictionist, novelist, romancer, storyteller; essayist, pamphleteer, satirist; dramatist, playwright, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriter; prosaist, prosateur, proser; bard, poet, rhymer, versifier; blogger, columnist, journalist, newspaperman, paragrapher, reporter, sportswriter

Antonyms nonauthor

Variants of LITTERATEUR

litterateur or littérateur