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literature meaning

EN[ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹ.ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ)] [ˈlɪt.ɜː(ɹ).ɪ.tʃjʊə(ɹ)] [ˈlɪ.tɚ.ɪ.tʃɚ] [ˈlɪ.tɚ.ə.tʃɚ] [ˈlɪ.tə.tʃɚ]
WLiterature
  • Literature, in its broadest sense, is any written work; etymologically the term derives from Latin literatura/litteratura "writing formed with letters", although some definitions include spoken or sung texts.
  • Taken to mean only written works, literature was first produced by some of the world's earliest civilizations—those of Ancient Egypt and Sumeria—as early as the 4th millennium BC; taken to include spoken or sung texts, it originated even earlier,
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    Definition of literature in English Dictionary

  • NounPLliteraturesSUF-ure
    1. The body of all written works.
      1. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
        1. All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
          1. Written fiction of a high standard.
            1. However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • In the literature these "off-time" youngsters have been termed "early" and "late" developers (Petersen and Taylor, 1980).
            • There is a vast amount of literature available that provides in-depth reviews of modeling shallow water flows using the finite difference, finite volume, and finite element methods.
            • We performed a systematic literature review to analyze the clinical application and the safety of mifepristone, a prominent antiprogesterone agent, in meningioma patients.
          2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • Alfuzosin exhibits no pharmacological uroselectivity for any of the alpha-1 subtype receptors, however, it did prove to have less side-effects and blood pressure changes as reported in the literature.
            • Multiple glomuvenous malformations (GVMs) are a rare condition which usually present in children with only a handful of cases reported in the literature.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
              • Singularia tantum
                • Uncountable nouns
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            Meaning of literature for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "literature" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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