Definitions for literature

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literature lit·er·a·ture

Spelling: [lit-er-uh-cher, -choo r, li-tr Literature is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in literature (aeeilrrttu).

Definitions for literature

noun

1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
2. the entire body of writings of a specific language, period, people, etc.:
3. the writings dealing with a particular subject:
4. the profession of a writer or author.
5. literary work or production.
6. any kind of printed material, as circulars, leaflets, or handbills:
7. Archaic. polite learning; literary culture; appreciation of letters and books.

Origin of literature

1375-1425; late Middle English litterature Latin litterātūra grammar. See literate, -ure

Examples for literature

It was like being present at the birth of a piece of literature!

literature in the 14th century, Strohm points out, was an intimate, interactive affair.

Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.

Fruitcake quickly acclimated to its American home, and even plays a supporting role in American literature.

The like of that "looped and windowed raggedness" is hardly to be found in any other literature.

The Twentieth Century will have its share in literature and art.

Celebrities flocked to this glamorous and buzzy temple of literature and culture.

It is his magnum opus in literature, and exhibits wide and laborious research.

The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.

We get "inside of" any classic work of literature only by this spirit of surrender.