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literature

noun
/ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/UK/ˈlɪt.ɚ.ə.t͡ʃɚ/CA/ˈlɪt.ə.t͡ʃɚ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin littera Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin litterātūrader. Old French littératurebor. Middle English literature English literature From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English bōccræft.

  1. derived from διφθέρᾱ
  2. derived from literatura
  3. derived from littérature
  4. inherited from literature

Definitions

  1. The body of all written works.

  2. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

    • He’s studying English literature at university.
    • There’s a vast body of scientific literature on the subject.
    • classical literature

  3. All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.

    • In fact, information on when each of the terms first appeared in English, and if obsolete, how long they persisted, is entirely absent from the literature.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Written fiction of a high standard.

      • 2008, Adam Cadre 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.

    2. Literacy

      Literacy; ability to read and write.

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Derived

antiliterature, Clementine literature, comparative literature, cyberliterature, DDLC, e-literature, escape literature, found literature, global literature, gray literature, grey literature, hyperliterature, illiterature, literatize, literatured, literature review, literature search, literaturology, literotica, loiterature, medieval literature, metaliterature, microliterature, nonliterature, obliterature, orature, paraliterature, polite literature, preliterature, secondary literature, speculum-literature, speculum literature, subliterature, Twitterature, world literature

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at literature

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