literary
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (3)
- of or relating to or characteristic of literature“literary criticism”Relating to literature
- knowledgeable about literature“a literary style”Opposite illiterateSimilar literate
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing“when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style”Opposite informalSimilar formal
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Adjective relating to literature
- Spanish
- literario
- French
- littéraire
- German
- literarisch
- Italian
- letterario
- Portuguese
- literário
- Turkish
- edebî
- Russian
- литерату́рный literatúrnyj
- Arabic
- أَدَبِيّ ʔadabiyy
- Chinese
- 文学 wénxué
- Japanese
- 文学的 bungakuteki
23 more languages
- Dutch
- literair
- Polish
- literacki
- Swedish
- litterär
- Greek
- λογοτεχνικός logotechnikós
- Indonesian
- sastra
- Vietnamese
- văn học
- Hungarian
- irodalmi
- Portuguese (PT)
- literário
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 文學 wénxué
- Albanian
- letrar
- Catalan
- literari
- Czech
- literární
- Danish
- litterær
- Esperanto
- literatura
- Finnish
- kaunokirjallinen
- Georgian
- ლიტერატურული liṭeraṭuruli
- Hebrew
- ספרותי sifrutí
- Latvian
- literārs
- Norwegian
- litterær
- Romanian
- literar
- Serbo-Croatian
- književni
- Welsh
- llenyddol
- Yiddish
- ליטעראַריש literarish
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. litterarius, literarius, fr. littera, litera, a letter: cf. F. littéraire. See Letter.
1. Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.— Dr. Samuel Johnson
2. Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
In the literary as well as fashionable world.— William Mason
Literary property. (a) Property which consists in written or printed compositions. (b) The exclusive right of publication as recognized and limited by law.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54