LITERATURE meaning: Written works of artistic value

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word literature:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

literature: Merriam-Webster.com
literature: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
literature: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
literature: Collins English Dictionary
literature: Vocabulary.com
Literature, literature: Wordnik
literature: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Literature, literature: Wiktionary
literature: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
literature: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
literature: Infoplease Dictionary
Literature, literature, the literature: Dictionary.com
literature: Online Etymology Dictionary
literature: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Literature (card game), Literature: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Literature: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
literature: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
literature: Rhymezone
literature: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
literature: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Literature: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
literature: Free Dictionary
literature: Mnemonic Dictionary
literature: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

literature: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

literature: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
literature: Hacking Lexicon
literature: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
literature, the literature: Medical dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

literature: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
literature: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Literature: Card Games

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The body of all written works.
▸ noun:  The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
▸ noun:  (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
▸ noun:  Written fiction of a high standard.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Literacy; ability to read and write.

Opposite:

mathematics, science, silence, ignorance, illiteracy

Types:

poetry, prose, drama, fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography, memoir, essay, more...

Phrases:

the literature, American literature, English literature, literature review, world literature, more...

Adjectives:

english, american, modern, recent, german, french, classical, contemporary, current, medical, scientific

Colors:

sepia, parchment, ink black, ivory, antique white, more...

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