homme de lettres

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. man of letters, a literary man

Word forms

homme de lettres hommes de lettres

Etymology

Borrowed from French homme de lettres, from homme (“man”) + de (“of”) + lettres (“humanities, arts”).

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