Literature

  • 31Literature —    A great variety of types of literature has survived from ancient Egypt from all periods. These include the didactic wisdom literature; poetry, including love poems from the New Kingdom; hymns; and a large number of stories and folktales, some… …

    Ancient Egypt

  • 32Literature —    See Dutch language and literature; Frisian language and literature …

    Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands

  • 33literature*/*/ — [ˈlɪtrətʃə] noun [U] 1) stories, poems, and plays, especially those that are considered to have value as art She is studying German literature.[/ex] 2) books or other printed information about a subject Police discovered racist literature in his… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 34literature —    by Richard G. Smith   In the early 1960s, Baudrillard wrote literary reviews of fiction from Italo Calvino, Uwe Johnson and William Styron for Jean Paul Sartre s periodical Les Temps Modernes. The reviews were Baudrillard s first publications… …

    The Baudrillard dictionary

  • 35literature — noun /ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹ.ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ),ˈlɪt.ɜː(ɹ).ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ),ˈlɪt.ɚ.ɪ.tʃɚ/ a) The body of all written works. SF is rarely literature because the characters are so poorly realised. Adam Cadre b) The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or… …

    Wiktionary

  • 36Literature —    This is a very significant aspect of Berber culture and heritage. Poets of all sorts would recite histories and cultural traditions, and this oral stock was and is the basis of much of the Berber literature, which has been written largely in… …

    Historical dictionary of the berbers (Imazighen)

  • 37literature — n. 1. Learning, erudition, letters, lore. 2. The humanities, the Muses, belles lettres, polite literature. 3. Literary productions, literary works …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 38literature — lit•er•a•ture [[t]ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə [/t]] n. 1) lit. writing in prose or verse regarded as having permanent worth through its intrinsic excellence 2) lit. the entire body of writings of a specific language, period, people, etc 3)… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 39literature — /ˈlɪtrətʃə / (say litruhchuh), /ˈlɪtərətʃə / (say lituhruhchuh) noun 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, romance, history,… …

  • 40literature — / lɪt(ə)rətʃə/ noun written information about something ● Please send me literature about your new product range …

    Marketing dictionary in english