Literati definitions

Literati

1) Book review types 2) Book set 3) Bookish bunch 4) Bookish folk 5) Bookish set 6) Bookish types 7) Clerisy 8) Deep thinkers 9) Educated class 10) Educated folks 11) Educated ones 12) Educators, writers, etc 13) Erudite folks 14) Highbrow bookish types 15) Highbrows 16) Intellectual types 17) Intelligentsia
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Literati

1) Clerisy 2) Savants 3) Scholar
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Literati

• (n. pl.) Learned or literary men. See Literatus. • (pl. ) of Literatus
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Literati

A social class of Chinese men, trained in Confucian classics, who cultivated the arts—painting, calligraphy, poetry, and music. Some served the state as scholar officials—and all played the reclusive role of retired gentlemen.
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literati

Term applied, sometimes disparagingly, to the learned and well-read. It was originally used by English philosopher Robert Burton in the 17th century to describe the literate class in China. ...
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Literati

Lit`e·ra'ti (lĭt`e*rā'tī) noun plural [ See Literatus .] Learned or literary men. See Literatus . « Shakespearean commentators, and other literati .» Craik.
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