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Definition of culturati in English: culturatiplural noun ˌkʌltʃəˈrɑːtiˌkəlCHəˈrädē Well-educated people who appreciate the arts. 文化界,知识界 the yuppies and the culturati get fashionable shows that suck up to them Example sentencesExamples - The sun was high, the coffee steaming, and clustered round a Salzburg garden table were six of Europe's most influential culturati.
- And so image-sensitive liberal, urbane, ironic culturati are going to want to prove their complex open-heartedness by indifferently swooning over her book.
- The Coalition - abused and pilloried by the media and culturati for the last four years - have increased their majority.
- Once in a generation, somebody in New York culturati circles - not the real heavy lifters, but the instant-replay analysts - drops a bomb that smolders for decades.
- No sooner had the word got out when that issue became hot property among the culturati.
Synonyms intellectuals, intelligent people, academics, scholars, learned people, literati, men and women of letters, cognoscenti, illuminati, highbrows, bluestockings, thinkers, brains
Origin1980s: blend of culture and literati. Definition of culturati in US English: culturatiplural nounˌkəlCHəˈrädē Well-educated people who appreciate the arts. 文化界,知识界 the yuppies and the culturati get fashionable shows that suck up to them Example sentencesExamples - The sun was high, the coffee steaming, and clustered round a Salzburg garden table were six of Europe's most influential culturati.
- The Coalition - abused and pilloried by the media and culturati for the last four years - have increased their majority.
- No sooner had the word got out when that issue became hot property among the culturati.
- Once in a generation, somebody in New York culturati circles - not the real heavy lifters, but the instant-replay analysts - drops a bomb that smolders for decades.
- And so image-sensitive liberal, urbane, ironic culturati are going to want to prove their complex open-heartedness by indifferently swooning over her book.
Synonyms intellectuals, intelligent people, academics, scholars, learned people, literati, men and women of letters, cognoscenti, illuminati, highbrows, bluestockings, thinkers, brains
Origin1980s: blend of culture and literati. |