Usually means: Writer specializing in beautiful prose.
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  1. belletrist: Merriam-Webster
  2. belletrist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belletrist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. belletrist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. belletrist: Wordnik
  6. belletrist: Wiktionary
  7. belletrist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. belletrist: Dictionary.com
  9. Belletrist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. belletrist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. belletrist: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres

Similar:
bellettrist, literateur, homme de lettres, litterateur, littérateur, balladist, letter writer, literarist, ballader, epistolist, more...

Opposite:
philistine, non-literary, unintellectual

Types:
novelist, writer, author, playwright, poet, essayist, raconteur, bibliophile, more...

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Similar:
bellettrist, literateur, homme de lettres, litterateur, littérateur, balladist, letter writer, literarist, ballader, epistolist, more...

Opposite:
philistine, non-literary, unintellectual

Types:
novelist, writer, author, playwright, poet, essayist, raconteur, bibliophile, more...



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