HOW TO PRONOUNCE
literati
/ˌlɪtɚˈɑti/
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Give “rah” the main beat.
The opening has a smaller beat, while the third syllable is strongest. Finish with a lighter tee sound, keeping the final i as an ee vowel.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“The cafe attracted the city's literati.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does literati mean?
noun
- Well-educated, erudite, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌlɪtɚˈɑti/
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The German literati reversed this process with the profane French literature.
I despise your literati enormously for their opinion of Montesquieu's book.
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He was always courteous to these proud literati, but he always treated them as equals, and showed none of the deference they felt he owed them.
He sent a cold shiver down the spine of the literati by declaring that a man's fitness for office should not depend upon his ability to write a poem, or upon the elegance of his penmanship.
He was a great master of the English tongue, and well acquainted with what learning it contained, but nevertheless was passionately attached to the language and literature of Wales, a proof of which he gave by holding a congress of bards and literati at Carmarthen, at which various pieces of eloquence and poetry were recited, and certain alterations introduced into the canons of Welsh versification.