Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A writer of belles-lettres.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One devoted to belles-lettres.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres
Examples
“Soft Skull publisher and all-around NYC belletrist Richard Nash recently posted a scathing opinion piece on this site about Book Expo America's decision to limit floor hours (and effectively cancel an opening night party) at BEA 2010.”
Nick Antosca: How to Throw a Party for Books: the NBA's 5 Under 35 Event
“David Duchovny reprises the role of Moody, the bawdy, cocksure and terminally lovesick belletrist transplanted from his native New York to Venice Beach.”
Rob Fishman: Californication Season 3: Sneak Peek And Review
“A PERI-palooza of other groups with a leg up on stardom: Rock Bottom Remainders: Dave Barry, Stephen King and Amy Tan lead belletrist bar band.”
“One of the five he named is philosopher and belletrist Brandon Watson of Siris who, declining to use the delightfully ego-stroking graphic offered to us, has in turned memed me.”
“Peter Riis, proprietor of The New Companion and a "shameless and hardened belletrist," noticed the recent renaissance of hat-related posts here and sent me a link to a glorious advertisement he had posted a couple of years ago:THE PRICE OF FRIENDSHIP.”
“Today belles lettres both in French and English, is used rather rarely and the noun “belletrist” and the adjective “belletristic” have assumed a faintly derisive shade of frivolity and incon - sequence.”
“Bond-like hero than erudite belletrist, alluding as nonchalantly to Rage Against the Machine and Bart Simpson as he does 19th century radical French mathematician évariste Galois and René”
“But writers who overtly seek political change through fiction rarely succeed, according to British belletrist Ferdinand Mount, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement.”
“Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher.”
“Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘belletrist’.
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
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These words are about words.
words on words. yyep.
codex, folio, lexicon, tome, word stock, wordbook, wordlist, palaver, word index, argot, parlance, doublespeak and 68 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Unsorted
poliorcetikon, lethologica, aegrotat, haha, logolepsy, logomisia, anfractuosity, nudiustertian, tontine, herostrat, acroamatic, bibliotaph and 132 more...
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Writer, Writer!
columnist, contributor, novelist, poet, wordsmith, stringer, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, correspondent, essayist, speechwriter and 99 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
lurid, limned, concordance, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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SimonW11's Words
rodomontadizing, skeevy, skelfy, bloviate, ephebophilia, carmagnole, copacetic, redacted, lexiphanic, wingnuttery, outlier, prolegomena and 23 more...
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the love list
in fiocchi, roué, martinet, cognoscente, belletrist, brummagen, chartreuse, condign, hobbledehoy, fustian, bar sinister, adumbrate and 46 more...
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Spelling Bee 2011
HMH - Riverside / Rancho Cucamonga Office
onerous, ribald, scimitar, euchre, affidavit, pomegranate, Weevil, unbudgeable, corbel, fluorescent, googol, hemorrhage and 14 more...
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joshleejosh's Words
inchoate, garner, oft, hydrocephalitic, twee, dorktacular, tic, discourse, coded, avuncular, maleficent, saguaro and 46 more...
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hagendas 2011
putsch, horrent, minify, rodomontade, malapropism, bowdlerize, voluptuary, teleology, vesicle, moneth, euphonius, concupiscence and 40 more...
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Sentence Enhancers
Good enough even for the most refined lexicon...
volition, elucidate, elucidation, belletrist, belletristic, veracity, veracious, grandiloquent, grandiloquence, magniloquent, magniloquence, munificent and 32 more...
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Writers
writer, scribbler, scrawler, author, wordsmith, novelist, scriptwriter, tragedian, dramatist, dramaturge, poetaster, scribe and 27 more...
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belletrist's Words
belletrist, descend, superstructure, justice, epistemology, ethics, love, fuck, paradise, blasphemy, softly, death and 73 more...
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afbroman's Words
serendipitous, pule, truculent, vitriol, belletrist, eyrie, rodomontade, ersatz, sere, sedulous, dilettante, mulct and 23 more...
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reesetee A writer of belles-lettres. Nov 3, 2007