literary

adj
/ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/UK/ˈlɪt.əˌɹɛɹ.i/CA

Etymology

From French littéraire.

  1. derived from littéraire

Definitions

  1. Relating to literature.

    • literary fame
    • a literary history
    • literary conversation
  2. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.

    • a literary man
    • in the literary as well as fashionable world
  3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.

    2. Bookish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at literary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at literary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at literary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA