man of letters

1. 1.

   a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities

   Broaderhumanist

Questions about man of letters

What does man of letters mean?

man of letters means "a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities".

Is man of letters a common word?

man of letters 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.