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单词 culturati
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Definition of culturati in English:

culturati

plural noun ˌkʌltʃəˈrɑːtiˌkəlCHəˈrädē
  • Well-educated people who appreciate the arts.

    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

Origin

1980s: blend of culture and literati.

 
 

Definition of culturati in US English:

culturati

plural nounˌkəlCHəˈrädē
  • Well-educated people who appreciate the arts.

    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

Origin

1980s: blend of culture and literati.

 
 
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