<p><strong>Plural Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Literati.</li></ul><p><strong>Singular Noun</strong></p><ul><li><p>Literatus.</p></li><li><p>People engaged in literary pursuits, especially professional writers: The lounge at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City was a well-known haunt of the literati during the 1920s.</p></li><li><p>Learned people and scholars considered as a class: University literati in their ivory tower.</p></li></ul>