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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,
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    Definition of literature in English Dictionary

  • NounPLliteraturesSUF-ure
    1. The body of all written works.
      1. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
        1. All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
          1. Written fiction of a high standard.
            1. 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
        2. More Examples
          1. 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.
          2. 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.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
              • Singularia tantum
                • Uncountable nouns
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            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of literature for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "literature" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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