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Synonyms for literature
ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə-lit·er·a·ture
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
literature
Literature is collective, including in the most general sense all the written or printed productions of the human mind in all lands and ages, or in a more limited sense, referring to all that has been published in some land or age, or in some department of human knowledge; as, the literature of Greece; the literature of the Augustan age; the literature of politics or of art. Literature, used absolutely, denotes what has been called "polite literature" or belles-lettres, i. e., the works collectively that embody taste, feeling, loftiness of thought, and purity and beauty of style, as poetry, history, fiction, and dramatic compositions, including also much of philosophical writing, as the "Republic" of Plato, and oratorical productions, as the orations of Demosthenes. In the broad sense, we can speak of the literature of science; in the narrower sense, we speak of literature and science as distinct departments of knowledge. Literature is also used to signify literary pursuits or occupations; as, to devote one's life to literature. Compare KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE.
Synonyms:
belles-lettres, books, literary productions, literary works, publications, writings
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
literature
Synonyms:
lore, erudition, reading, study, learning, attainment, scholarship, literary worksAntonyms:
genius, intuition, inspiration
Princeton's WordNet
literaturenoun
creative writing of recognized artistic value
Synonyms:
litliterature, litnoun
the humanistic study of a body of literature
"he took a course in Russian lit"
Synonyms:
litliteraturenoun
published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
"the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature"
Synonyms:
litliteraturenoun
the profession or art of a writer
"her place in literature is secure"
Synonyms:
lit
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
literaturenoun
literaturenoun
Synonyms:
the humanities, the muses, belles lettres, polite literatureliteraturenoun
Synonyms:
literary productions, literary works
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "literature":
literary, documentation, documentary, publications, bibliography, doctrine, documents, bibliographic, munhak, literatures, documentaries, backgrounders, books, backgrounder, works
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#163 | books | |
#508 | study | |
#670 | learning | |
#811 | works | |
#839 | reading | |
#1256 | documents | |
#1322 | publications | |
#1769 | literature | |
#1876 | documentation | |
#4896 | scholarship | |
#5153 | literary | |
#5569 | bibliography | |
#5984 | documentary | |
#8015 | lit | |
#8637 | doctrine | |
#9082 | bibliographic | |
#9123 | writings | |
#13477 | attainment | |
#18268 | lore | |
#19052 | documentaries | |
#32659 | literatures | |
#52583 | backgrounder | |
#72396 | backgrounders | |
#94742 | erudition |
How to use literature in a sentence?
It's possible 'Go Set a Watchman' will turn out to be a great work of literature, but it will have some awfully stiff competition. Few books can outdo the one we've written in our minds.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
I was that guy that had totally missed this glorious piece of literature in my childhood, i thought he was the illusionist when I went to the meeting ... obviously that changed very quickly.
He's the kind of person who cannot survive in normal society, as a person, he's wonderful. He has so much to say all the time. He recites literature -- Shakespeare and classical poetry -- by heart.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Translations for literature
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- literaturaAragonese
- الأدبArabic
- ədəbiyyatAzerbaijani
- әҙәбиәтBashkir
- літарату́раBelarusian
- литератураBulgarian
- সাহিত্যBengali
- literaturaCatalan, Valencian
- literaturaCzech
- llênWelsh
- litteraturDanish
- LiteraturGerman
- λογοτεχνία, βιβλιογραφίαGreek
- literaturoEsperanto
- literaturaSpanish
- literatuurEstonian
- literaturaBasque
- ادبیات, ادبPersian
- kirjallisuusFinnish
- bókmentirFaroese
- littératureFrench
- literatuerWestern Frisian
- litríochtIrish
- litreachasScottish Gaelic
- literaturaGalician
- ספרותHebrew
- साहित्यHindi
- irodalomHungarian
- գրականությունArmenian
- litteraturaInterlingua
- kesusasteraanIndonesian
- literaturoIdo
- bókmenntirIcelandic
- letteraturaItalian
- 文献, 資料, 文学Japanese
- sastraJavanese
- ლიტერატურაGeorgian
- әдебиетKazakh
- ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯKannada
- 문학Korean
- litteraeLatin
- LiteraturLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- literatuurLimburgish, Limburgan, Limburger
- literatūraLithuanian
- literatūraLatvian
- mātātuhiMāori
- литератураMacedonian
- സാഹിത്യംMalayalam
- sastera, persuratan, kesusasteraanMalay
- letteraturaMaltese
- litteraturNorwegian
- साहित्यNepali
- literatuurDutch
- litteraturNorwegian
- literaturaOccitan
- ସାହିତ୍ୟOriya
- literaturaPolish
- literaturaPortuguese
- literaturăRomanian
- литератураRussian
- književnost, књижевност, literaturaSerbo-Croatian
- literatúraSlovak
- literaturaSlovene
- letërsi, literaturëAlbanian
- litteraturSwedish
- இலக்கியம்Tamil
- วรรณกรรมThai
- literatura, panitikanTagalog
- edebiyat, literatür, yazınTurkish
- ئەدەبىياتUyghur, Uighur
- літератураUkrainian
- ادبUrdu
- văn học, văn chươngVietnamese
- literatVolapük
- 文学Chinese
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