Literature is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LITERATURE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the production of literary work esp. as an occupation
• written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit
• books and writings published on a particular subject
• leaflets and other printed matter used to advertise products or give advice
• the production of literary work especially as an occupation
• Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
• 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.
• 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.
• The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
• creative writing of recognized artistic value
• the humanistic study of a body of literature
• published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
• the profession or art of a writer
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• literary culture

Words related to LITERATURE

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Words that contain LITERATURE

literatured12 literatures11 subliterature15 subliteratures16

How to use LITERATURE in a sentence

• Literature is a mastery, not only of the moods of men, but of the moods of words.
• Before we study the writers who developed this new type of literature, it is well to consider briefly its meaning and history.
• As a memorial of the literature and learning of the middle ages, it must always possess a permanent value.
• But there is a suspicion of hopelessness in the idea of a young man starting in life intending to earn his bread by literature.
• A History of Russian literature, comprising A History of Russian Literature and Contemporary Russian literature.
• Grecian literature and cultivation, the Seleucidae, the Antiochuses, and the Ptolemies followed, in nations which before had been sunk to the condition of brutes.
• But the student of literature ought to beware of them, nor ought he to touch them till he is familiar with the big and lasting things.
• But it is to the literature of these people rather than to their life or their customs that I wish now particularly to call attention.
• They are still on view, near the George Cruikshank collection, and during the twenty years they have been exhibited, such literature has steadily gone up to fancy prices.
• Literature was universal within the limits of its language.
• Then I would give them a talk on temperance, astronomy, literature or any subject about which I thought my audience knew less than I.
• There Kondratieff became acquainted with Novodvoroff, and read a great deal more revolutionary literature, remembered it all, and became still firmer in his socialistic views.
• It could not therefore be expected that, while literature and philosophy were affected by Rationalism, the Scriptures should escape with impunity.
• The evolution of the First Rondo-form of the Song with Trio may be clearly traced in classic literature.
• Borrow indeed stands quite apart from the great literature of a period in which he was a striking and individual figure.
• The effect of this conclusion must be startling indeed to those who know the ancient world only through the medium of Greek and Roman literature.
• It is all the more curious that he should ever have been regarded as one who had added to the literature of despair.
• The one has spoken a mere opinion, so beautiful in its phrase that it shall pass down into the future literature of men.
• During these forty years there are fewer great names in French literature than in any other corresponding period since the Renaissance.
• Literature had taken possession even of her memories.
• No people can be brought fully under the influence of the Christian religion, unless their minds are at the same time enlightened and expanded by literature.
• In the literature of France, Germany, and Spain he was quite as well versed as in that of his native tongue.
• Literature and religion have, each in its place, called forth worthy utterances in American oratory.

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