literature meaning
EN[ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹ.ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ)] [ˈlɪt.ɜː(ɹ).ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ)] [ˈlɪ.tɚ.ɪ.tʃɚ] [ˈlɪ.tɚ.ə.tʃɚ] [ˈlɪ.tə.tʃɚ]WLiterature
- Literature, in its broadest sense, is any written work; etymologically the term derives from Latin literatura/litteratura "writing formed with letters", although some definitions include spoken or sung texts.
- Taken to mean only written works, literature was first produced by some of the world's earliest civilizations—those of Ancient Egypt and Sumeria—as early as the 4th millennium BC; taken to include spoken or sung texts, it originated even earlier,
- NounPLliteraturesSUF-ure
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
- All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- Written fiction of a high standard.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
- The body of all written works.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Meanwhile, literature supports the possibility of underdiagnosing AC in the hospital setting; exponentially so when males generally have poor hospital-attending behavior.
- The central character, Prof. Laurie Jameson, teaches literature at a small, elite, ultraprogressive liberal arts college in New England — it boasts the first transgender dorm in America.
- Overall, maximum levels of alternariol were higher than those reported in the literature with the exception of sunflower.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Multiple glomuvenous malformations (GVMs) are a rare condition which usually present in children with only a handful of cases reported in the literature.
- Alfuzosin exhibits no pharmacological uroselectivity for any of the alpha-1 subtype receptors, however, it did prove to have less side-effects and blood pressure changes as reported in the literature.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of literature in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
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Source: Wiktionary