homme de lettres
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French homme de lettres, from homme (“man”) + de (“of”) + lettres (“humanities, arts”).
Noun[edit]
homme de lettres (plural hommes de lettres)
- man of letters, a literary man
Usage notes[edit]
This is a foreign term not fully naturalized in English and is sometimes italicized.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
homme de lettres m (plural hommes de lettres or gens de lettres, feminine femme de lettres)