MAN OF LETTERS (men of letters)

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Irregular inflected form: men of letters   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does man of letters mean? 

• MAN OF LETTERS (noun)
  The noun MAN OF LETTERS has 1 sense:

1. a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities

  Familiarity information: MAN OF LETTERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAN OF LETTERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man devoted to literary or scholarly activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("man of letters" is a kind of...):

humanist (a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts)

 Context examples 

“I suppose, Watson, we must look upon you as a man of letters,” said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)