\Lit"er*a`tor\, n. [L. litterator, literator. See
{Letter}.]
1. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a
   petty schoolmaster. --Burke.
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. --De
                                               Quincey.
3. A learned person; a literatus. --Sir W. Hamilton.