literature
The body of all written works.
Other meanings
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
“He’s studying English literature at university.”
All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
Related words
- DDLC
- literatize
- literatured
- literaturology
- literotica
- orature
- preliterature
- Twitterature
- escape literature
- found literature
- gray literature
- literature search
Word history
From Ancient Greek "διφθέρᾱ" (tablet).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “literature” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.