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literature

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin literatura / litteratura "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from litera / littera "letter" (see letter (n.1)). Originally "book learning" (it replaced Old English boccræft ), the meaning "literary ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. creative writing of recognized artistic value the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit" [syn: lit ] published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Literature , in its broadest sense, is any single body of written works . More restrictively, it is writing considered as an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES 18th-/19th- etc century art/music/literature ▪ Nothing compares with Florence's beautiful 15th-century architecture. subversive propaganda/literature COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE classical ▪ In classical literature ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The body of all written works. 2 The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group(,) or culture. 3 All the papers, treatises(,) etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject. 4 Written fiction of a high standard.

Usage examples of literature.

These ancient Martians had been a highly cultivated and literary race, but during the vicissitudes of those trying centuries of readjustment to new conditions, not only did their advancement and production cease entirely, but practically all their archives, records, and literature were lost.

Typically readers simply circle a number that corresponds to an advertiser, and the publication forwards the cards to the company, which can follow up with a phone contact or by sending requested literature.

I found that there is, in fact, a rather extensive literature on visual agnosia in general, and prosopagnosia in particular.

I headed off what might have been a provoking defence of the computer by asking Albacore to what extent he felt his book might bring Beddoes in out of the cold at the perimeter of British romantic literature and into its warm centre.

Some of the secret is given away by the preponderance of sexual symbolism in alchemical literature.

It does not, I should suppose, lie in the way of The Century, whose general audience on both sides of the Atlantic takes only an amused interest in this singular revival of a traditional literary animosity--an anachronism in these tolerant days when the reading world cares less and less about the origin of literature that pleases it--it does not lie in the way of The Century to do more than report this phenomenal literary effervescence.

Young Conservative and Young Socialist and Libertarian literature, a group of Anachronists clustered on a lawn around two masked and gauntleted men with their wooden battle-swords, striking at one another while their referee or marshall or whatever they called him circled slowly around the fighters.

Amsterdam he called at the sports shop and got a handful of literature about aqualungs, and a technical handout in rather difficult French from the makers.

Neill is clearly of opinion that the Captains of the MAY-FLOWER and the DISCOVERY were identical, and this belief is shared by such authorities in Pilgrim literature as Young, Prince, Goodwin, and Davis, and against this formidable consensus of opinion, Arber, unless better supported, can hardly hope to prevail.

For he approached the idea of the sacred vessel, not as did Sir Giles, through antiquity and savage folklore, nor as did the Archdeacon, through a sense of religious depths in which the mere temporary use of a particular vessel seemed a small thing, but through exalted poetry and the high romantic tradition in literature.

For a short time the hold of athleticism was weakened, and as it weakened, the hold of literature became more firm.

They have brought in materialism, atheism, class war, weak happiness ideals, race suicide, social atomism, racial promiscuity, decadence in the arts, erotomania, disintegration of the family, private and public dishonor, slatternly feminism, economic fluctuation and catastrophe, civil war in the family of Europe, planned degeneration of the youth through vile films and literature, and through neurotic doctrines in education.

There is a case in French literature, apparently well authenticated, in which submersion for six minutes was followed by subsequent recovery.

Vienna, for they were popular among the Pan-German and anti-Semitic groups whose literature he devoured so avidly in those early days.

As far as axiology is concerned, some evaluative criteria are always in place during our encounters with literature.