LITERATURE
\lˈɪtɹɪt͡ʃə], \lˈɪtɹɪtʃə], \l_ˈɪ_t_ɹ_ɪ_tʃ_ə]\
Definitions of LITERATURE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in French literature"
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creative writing of recognized artistic value
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
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The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
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The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
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The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
By Oddity Software
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Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
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The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
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The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
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The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
By Noah Webster.
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Writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest. The body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age. (Webster, 3d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The science of letters or what is written: the whole body of literary compositions in any language, or on a given subject: all literary productions except those relating to positive science and art, usually confined, however, to the belles-lettres.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Acquaintance with books; the collective body of literary productions of a country or an age, in general or in some special department; in a special sense, that body of literary compositions which, to the exclusion of merely philosophical, scientific, and technical works, are occupied mainly with that which is spiritual in its nature and imaginative in its form, whether in the world of fact or the world of fiction; the profession of letters; belles letters.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Written compositions, except those on science or art; writings or productions on a given subject; acquaintance with books; learning.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] Learning; acquaintance with letters or books; skill, art, or grace in composition; literary style;— the body of literary productions in a country or nation, or in a particular age or period;— especially, such literary compositions as depend for their effect largely on style and diction; belles lettres; critical essays; poetry, &c., as opposed to scientific productions.
