belles lettres

1. 1.

   creative writing valued for esthetic content

   Synonymsbelles-lettres

   Broaderliterary composition

Questions about belles lettres

What does belles lettres mean?

belles lettres means "creative writing valued for esthetic content".

What is another word for belles lettres?

Close synonyms include belles-lettres. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is belles lettres a common word?

belles lettres 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.