literature
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
literature/ˈlɪtrətʃə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 written works, especially those regarded as having artistic merit.
- 2 books and writings on a particular subject.
- 3 promotional or advisory leaflets and other material.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘knowledge of books’): via Fr. from L. litteratura, from littera (see letter).
'literature' also found in these Oxford entries:
absurd
- academicism
- Acmeist
- actant
- agitprop
- Alexandrian
- amorist
- antithetical
- aporia
- apparatus
- Arcadian
- archetype
- art
- Augustan
- autotelic
- bathos
- bestiary
- Bildungsroman
- biographee
- book
- bowdlerize
- bricolage
- bucolic
- catastrophe
- cento
- ch.
- chapbook
- chick lit
- cinquecento
- classic
- classical
- classicism
- classicist
- CLit
- clou
- comic relief
- Companion of Literature
- comparatist
- composition
- concrete poetry
- conjecture
- conte
- conversazione
- courtly love
- critical
- critical apparatus
- critical theory
- cyberpunk
- cycle
- Dada
