Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas.

Men of letters

The expression man of letters stood in many cultures for what we might take to be the contemporary intellectual; the distinction not having great weight when literacy was not fairly universal (and, incidentally, not assumed of a woman). Men of letters are also termed literati (from the Latin), as a group; literatus, in the singular, is rarely used in English. This phrase may also refer to the 'citizen' of the Republic of Letters.

Related Topics:
Literacy - Latin - English - Republic of Letters

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