bel esprit

1. 1.

   a witty or clever person with a fine mind

   Broaderintellectual

Questions about bel esprit

What does bel esprit mean?

bel esprit means "a witty or clever person with a fine mind".

Is bel esprit a common word?

bel esprit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.