1. man of letters - Noun
2. man of letters - Phrase
a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities
Source: WordNetAssociated with the commander in the praetorium he became a familiar and close friend of Pomponius, who also was a man of letters. Source: Internet
During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Source: Internet
Doody 11. Frances's father, Charles Burney, was noted for his personal charm, and even more for his talents as a musician, a musicologist, a composer and a man of letters. Source: Internet
Pliny's last commander there, apparently neither a man of letters nor a close friend of his, was Pompeius Paulinus, governor of Germania Inferior AD 55-58. Source: Internet
Montesquieu (1689–1755) was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher. Source: Internet
Telford's reputation as a man of letters may have preceded his fame as an engineer: he had published poetry between 1779 and 1784, and an account of a tour of Scotland with Southey. Source: Internet