man of letters

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Calque of French homme de lettres.

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَالِم (ʕālim) — a literary man
• Catalan: literat — a literary man
• Catalan: home de lletres — a literary man
• Chinese Mandarin: 文學家 /文学家 (wénxuéjiā) — a literary man
• Chinese Mandarin: 文人 (wénrén) — a literary man
• Dutch: literaat — a literary man
• French: homme de lettres — a literary man
• French: littérateur — a literary man
• German: Literat — a literary man
• German: Literatin — a literary man
• Hungarian: irodalmár — a literary man
• Interlingua: homine de litteras — a literary man
• Irish: litrí — a literary man
• Irish: duine liteartha — a literary man
• Old Irish: litrid — a literary man
• Italian: uomo di lettere — a literary man
• Japanese: 文学者 (bungakusha) — a literary man
• Kazakh: әдебиетші (ädebietşı) — a literary man
• Macedonian: книжевник (kniževnik) — a literary man
• Manx: dooinney lettyraght — a literary man
• Polish: literat — a literary man
• Portuguese: homem das letras — a literary man
• Punjabi: ਅਦੀਬ (adīb) — a literary man
• Romanian: om de litere — a literary man
• Russian: литера́тор (literátor) — a literary man
• Scottish Gaelic: sruth — a literary man
• Scottish Gaelic: sruthan — a literary man
• Scottish Gaelic: saoidh — a literary man
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-litreachais — a literary man
• Serbo-Croatian: књижевник — a literary man
• Serbo-Croatian: književnik — a literary man
• Spanish: hombre de letras — a literary man
• Spanish: literato — a literary man
• Swedish: skriftställare — a literary man
• Swedish: litteratör — a literary man
• Swedish: skribent — a literary man
• Swedish: författare — a literary man
• Swedish: lärd man — a literary man
• Welsh: llenor — a literary man