culturati
plural noun
cul·tur·a·ti
ˌkəl-chə-ˈrä-(ˌ)tē 
: people intensely interested in cultural affairs
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Brooke is one of the culturati, but their busy social life, centered on a bowling team and trivia night, appears warm and teeming.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
But Schloss, who died in Rome in 2011, once lived and worked in the center of the center of midcentury New York’s most illustrious culturati.
—Jamie Hood, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
Toward the beginning of the last century—that is, when this magazine was a mere 75 or 80 years old—a handful of cutting-edge culturati would lose their famous cool when a certain topic came up in conversation.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2021
On Monday night, New York’s literati and culturati gathered to celebrate the 2019 honorees at the New York Public Library’s Library Lions gala.
—Vogue, 6 Nov. 2019
Young, handsome and gay, he was quickly taken up by New York’s culturati, including Lincoln Kirstein, Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson.
—Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 4 July 2017
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
But Schloss, who died in Rome in 2011, once lived and worked in the center of the center of midcentury New York’s most illustrious culturati.
—Jamie Hood, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
Toward the beginning of the last century—that is, when this magazine was a mere 75 or 80 years old—a handful of cutting-edge culturati would lose their famous cool when a certain topic came up in conversation.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2021
On Monday night, New York’s literati and culturati gathered to celebrate the 2019 honorees at the New York Public Library’s Library Lions gala.
—Vogue, 6 Nov. 2019
Young, handsome and gay, he was quickly taken up by New York’s culturati, including Lincoln Kirstein, Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson.
—Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 4 July 2017
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“Culturati.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culturati. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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