Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word litterati.

Examples

  • It seems to me that the real driving force behind these ideas is not the ivory towered, philosopher king litterati, but instead the people who wish to do nothing and have all of their choices made for them.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Hayek on the Use of Superior Expert Knowledge as a Justification for Paternalism 2009

  • Reddit unWired: "By lunch time I had literally locked myself in a bathroom stall and started crying" kfed litterati

    Reddit unWired : "By lunch time I had literally locked myself in a bathroom stall and started crying" Ben Barren 2006

  • Many of the leading lights of the party, even from the very earliest days, including the litterati, far from being of the Right had joined Plaid Cymru from the ranks of the Independent Labour Party.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • And a litterati article too, which probably might infuriate even more some PSF around as they might not understand the joke.

    09/24/2006 - 10/01/2006 2006

  • And a litterati article too, which probably might infuriate even more some PSF around as they might not understand the joke.

    Chavez's Inferno 2006

  • And Steve Meuse, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, wanted us to know that he thinks those particularly skilled at the activity under discussion should be called litterati.

    Word Fugitives 2004

  • And Steve Meuse, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, wanted us to know that he thinks those particularly skilled at the activity under discussion should be called litterati.

    Word Fugitives 2004

  • Somebody told me that at one particular event he was eating with twenty or thirty of the "litterati glitterati."

    Bono On Bono Assayas, Michka 2005

  • The whole country is full of these inventions of _litterati_ which date, for the most part, from the enthusiastic but undisciplined Cinque-Cento.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • Little by little the whole Empire was bureaucratised; founded by an aristocracy exclusively Roman in statesmen and soldiers, it was finally governed by a cosmopolitan bureaucracy of men of brains: orators, _litterati_, lawyers.

    Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • litterbugs?

    May 15, 2008

  • Yes, people who toss classic novels from their car windows.

    May 15, 2008

  • HAHA! Very good, bilby.

    May 15, 2008

  • :-D

    May 15, 2008

  • Well, I guess we need illitterati now, huh?

    May 19, 2008