Literati is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LITERATI in dictionary:

PLURAL NOUN [SINGULAR LIT·E·RA·TUS]:
• persons of scholarly or literary attainments; intellectuals.
PLURAL NOUN:
• literary people
NOUN:
• LITERATO, (Italian) a learned man, one acquainted with letters
• Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
• the literary intelligentsia
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• scholars collectively

Words related to LITERATI

literato8 literatus9

Words that contain LITERATI

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How to use LITERATI in a sentence

• My companion immediately introduced me to him, and at the same time gave me to understand that this was the great Reffei, one of the most distinguished literati of the country.
• They were known as Maallakat, or Suspended Books, which had the same meaning among Arabian literati as the term classic bore among the Italian scholars of the Renaissance.
• Captain Truck, therefore, was soon forgotten, and the literati, as that worthy seaman had termed the associates of Mrs.
• Also several of the most eminent among the American literati, and two first-rate artists.
• In this manner an author is passed from the literati and fashionable people of one metropolis to those of the next.
• Botta, formerly Miss Anne Lynch, whose drawing room for many years was the social center of the literati of New York.
• Some years afterward six of the chief literati of the old school translated this introduction into Japanese.
• Legare, and others regarded as the elite of her statesmen and literati.
• The struggle between cliques soon became a struggle between eunuchs and literati, in much the same way as at the end of the second Han dynasty.
• Benighted China places her teachers second only to the literati themselves in the place of honor.
• Learning, law and education are represented by the Confucian scholars or literati.
• Such recognition by no means annihilated the literati, but it illustrates the decisive influence exercised by the Emperor and the court.
• I have pointed out its un-Chinese features and the persistent opposition of the literati.
• Antiquarian research and accessible editions of classical writers were favourable to Confucianism, which had always been the religion of the literati.
• I am told it is the custom of the literati in these large cities to work in the night.
• The work is highly spoken of by the literati who have seen the advance sheets.
• To satisfy the urgent curiosity of the literati, these annotations on Tasso by Galileo were published in 1793.
• But here the Church, composed chiefly of the poor of this world, was continually giving lessons in humanity to heathen legislators and literati.
• But we are told that the literati of China, the aristocracy of our land, must go.
• But, unaccountable as it may appear, the resident literati were not much disturbed.
• I wish you a very pleasant journey to Cambridge, and hope you will procure some names amongst the literati.
• The domain of tragedy, although perhaps not so attractive to the English people as comedy, was still sufficiently so to invite the attention of the literati.
• BECCARIA, invited to Paris by the literati, arrived melancholy and silent, and abruptly returned home.

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