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Definition of Literature
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Literature
Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry. The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres. The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work. Related Definitions:
Acquaintance, Also, And, As, Beauty, Belles-Lettres, Biblical, Body, Branch, Business, Chemistry, Class, Collective, Contain, Country, Criticism, Distinction, Distinguished, Doing, Embracing, Entire, Essays, Expression, Fancy, For, From, Given, History, In, Knowledge, Learning, Literary, Literature, Occupation, Of, Or, Particular, Period, Poetry, Positive, Preserved, Profession, Reference, Science, Scientific, Style, Subject, The, To, Upon, Which, Whole, With, Work, Writing |
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Literature Quotations
All literature is political. LeVar Burton Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. Martin H. Fischer Remarks are not literature. Gertrude Stein Literature is analysis after the event. Doris Lessing First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. Mason Cooley |
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Literature Translations
literature in Afrikaans is literatuur, letterkunde literature in Dutch is litteratuur, literatuur, letterkunde literature in German is Literatur literature in Hungarian is irodalom literature in Italian is letteratura literature in Norwegian is litteratur literature in Portuguese is literatura literature in Swedish is lektyr, litteratur |
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