Literary lion
noun
a noted author who has reached celebrity status
Examples
Philip Roth is a literary lion.
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[lit-uh-rah-tee] /ˌlɪt əˈrɑ ti/ plural noun, singular literatus [lit-uh-rah-tuh s] /ˌlɪt əˈrɑ təs/ (Show IPA) 1. persons of scholarly or literary attainments; intellectuals. /ˌlɪtəˈrɑːtiː/ plural noun 1. literary or scholarly people n. “men and women of letters; the learned class as a whole,” 1620s, from Latin literati/litterati, plural of literatus/litteratus “lettered” (see literate). The proper […]
- Literatim
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- Literation
/ˌlɪtəˈreɪʃən/ noun 1. the use of letters to represent sounds or words n. “representation of sounds by alphabetic letters,” 1843, from Latin litera (see letter (n.1)) + -ation.