Thesaurus: literator
One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
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- n. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
- n. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
- n. A learned person; a literatus.
- 1. One who class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/teaches">teaches the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/letters">letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke. 2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey. 3. A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.
- n. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. n. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. n. A learned person; a literatus.