literature

Etymology
From, from , from or , from , from , from. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1)  The body of all written works.
 * 2)  The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
 * 3)   All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
 * 4)  Written fiction of a high standard.
 * 5) * 2008, Adam Cadre
 * 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.
 * 1)   ; ability to read and write.
 * 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.
 * 1)   ; ability to read and write.

Meronyms

 * See also Thesaurus:literature

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, literatuur
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ሥነ ጽሑፍ
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: literatura
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: সাহিত্য
 * Asturian: lliteratura
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: әҙәбиәт
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: літерату́ра
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 文學
 * Dungan: вынщуә
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: lien
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: އަދަބިއްޔާތު
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: literaturo
 * Estonian: literatuur, kirjandus
 * Faroese: bókmentir
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ლიტერატურა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: સાહિત્ય
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: panulat
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: litteratura
 * Irish: litríocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: sastra
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian: lëteratura
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, жазын
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: literatūra
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: Literatur
 * Luxembourgish: Literatur
 * Macedonian: литерату́ра, книжевност
 * Malay: kesusasteraan, sastera,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: letteratura
 * Maori: mātātuhi (written), mātākōrero, mātāwaha (oral)
 * Marathi: साहित्य
 * Mirandese: lhiteratura
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: утга зохиол
 * Nepali: साहित्य
 * Norman: littéthatuthe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: bōccræft
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schreft
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: leiteratur
 * Scottish Gaelic: litreachas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: књи̏же̄вно̄ст, литерату́ра
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi: ادب
 * Sinhalese: සාහිත්‍යය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: literatura
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: literatura,
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: సాహిత్యం
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: edebiýat
 * Ukrainian:, письме́нництво, письме́нство
 * Urdu: اَدَب, اَدَبِیّات
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (文章),  (文學)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: llên
 * West Frisian: literatuer
 * Yiddish: ליטעראַטור
 * Zhuang: vwnzyoz


 * Afrikaans:, literatuur
 * Bashkir: әҙәбиәт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: litríocht
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Maori: mātātuhi
 * Plautdietsch: Schreft
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:


 * Afrikaans: literatuur
 * Bashkir: әҙәбиәт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: litríocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Maori: mātātuhi
 * Norman: littéthatuthe
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: литерату́ра
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:


 * Finnish:
 * Indonesian:


 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Marathi:
 * Urdu: