| n. | 1. | One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. |
| 2. | A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. | |
| 3. | A learned person; a literatus. |