Literature

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Etymology

From Latin literatura or litteratura.

Pronunciation

• (UK)

• IPA: /ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹ.ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɪt.ɜː(ɹ).ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ)/
• SAMPA: /"lIt.(@)r.I.tSjU@(r)/, /"lIt.3:(r).I.tSjU@(r)/

• (US)

• IPA: /ˈlɪt.ɚ.ɪ.tʃɚ/
• SAMPA: /"lUIt.@`.I.tS@`/

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Noun

Singular Literature

Plural {{{1}}}

Literature ({{{1}}})

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.

   SF is rarely literature because the characters are so poorly realised. - Adam Cadre

Meronyms

• See also Wikisaurus:literature

Related terms

• letter
• literal
• literacy
• literate
• literary

Translations

body of all written works

Albanian: literaturë Arabic: الأدب Aragonese: literatura Asturian: lliteratura Azerbaijani: ədəbiyyat Basque: literatura Bengali: সাহিত্য bn(bn) Bosnian: književnost bs(bs) Bulgarian: литература (literatura) Chinese: 文学 (wén xué) Croatian: književnost hr(hr) Czech: literatura cs(cs) Danish: litteratur Dutch: literatuur nl(nl) Esperanto: literaturo eo(eo) Estonian: literatuur et(et) Finnish: kaunokirjallisuus fi(fi) French: littérature fr(fr) Galician: literatura Georgian: ლიტერატურა (literatura) German: Literatur de(de) Greek: λογοτεχνία (logotechnía) Hebrew: ספרות he(he) Hindi: साहित्य hi(hi) Hungarian: irodalom hu(hu) Ido: literaturo Indonesian: kesusasteraan id(id) Interlingua: litteratura Irish Gaelic: litríocht Italian: letteratura it(it) Japanese: 文献 (ぶんけん) (bunken) Javanese: sastra Kazakh: әдебиет kk(kk) (ədebiet)

Korean: 문학 (munhak) Latin: litterae la(la) Latvian: literatūra lv(lv) Limburgish: literatuur Lithuanian: literatūra lt(lt) Low Saxon: Literatur Luxemburgish: Literatur Macedonian: литература (literatura) Malayalam: സാഹിത്യം Maltese: letteratura mt(mt) Nepali: साहित्य ne(ne) Norwegian: litteratur no(no) Occitan: literatura Persian: ادبیات fa(fa) Polish: literatura pl(pl) Portuguese: literatura pt(pt) Romanian: literatură ro(ro) Russian: литература (literatura) Scots: leiteratur Scottish Gaelic: litreachas gd(gd) m. Serbian: књижевност (književnost) Sicilian: littiratura Slovak: literatúra Slovene: literatura sl(sl) Spanish: literatura es(es) Swedish: litteratur sv(sv) Thai: วรรณกรรม th(th) Turkish: literatür tr(tr), edebiyat tr(tr) Ukrainian: література (literatura) Uyghur: edebiyat Vietnamese: văn chương vi(vi) Welsh: llên West Frisian: literatuer

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Armenian: գրականություն (grakanut'yun) Icelandic: bókmenntir

Japanese: 文学 (ぶんがく) (bungaku), 文献 (ぶんけん) (bunken) Kurdish: ئاداب Marathi: साहित्य Novial: literature Tagalog: literatura, panitikan Tajik: адабиёт Urdu: ادب