Associations to the word «Literature»

Wiktionary

LITERATURE, noun. The body of all written works.
LITERATURE, noun. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
LITERATURE, noun. All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
LITERATURE, noun. Written fiction of a high standard.
LITERATURE REVIEW, noun. A scholarly paper compiled from published sources, which sums up current knowledge of a particular topic.
LITERATURE REVIEWS, noun. Plural of literature review

Dictionary definition

LITERATURE, noun. Creative writing of recognized artistic value.
LITERATURE, noun. The humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit".
LITERATURE, noun. 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".
LITERATURE, noun. The profession or art of a writer; "her place in literature is secure".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley