LITERATOR

Noun

literator (plural literators)

A literary person, a man of letters.

One who writes professionally.

A learned person.

Synonyms

• litterateur

Source: Wiktionary

Lit"er*a`tor, n. Etym: [L. litterator, literator. See Letter.]

1. One who teaches the 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition