literature
About 86.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The body of all written works.
- noun The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
He’s studying English literature at university.
- noun All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- noun Written fiction of a high standard.
- noun Literacy; ability to read and write.
Similar words
letters literary literacy arts fiction writer bibliography written bibliographic bibliographical
Often followed by
and of on in is as that to has
Word family
literatures
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