literature

literature is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
2. noun. The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
3. noun. The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
4. noun. The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
5. noun. the profession or art of a writer

   "her place in literature is secure"

6. noun. the humanistic study of a body of literature

   "he took a course in Russian lit"

   Synonyms: lit

7. noun. creative writing of recognized artistic value
8. 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"

Synonyms

lit

Common word forms

literatured, literatures

Words from these letters

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