Literature is an English word with synonyms like lit or writing. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Literature meaning
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
- All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
Synonyms of Literature
Using Literature
- The main meaning on this page is: The body of all written works. | The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture. | All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- Useful related words include: lit, literary study, writing, written material.
- In the example corpus, literature often appears in combinations such as: literature and, of literature, in literature.
Context around Literature
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Literature
- In this selection, "literature" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, german, american, world, span, todayuniversity and broke stand out and add context to how "literature" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a chik literature while dr, a comparative literature major said, english literature, literature festival and literature main. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "literature" sits close to words such as comprehensive, survived and stuck, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with literature
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I'm right now reviewing literature on this, recent literature. (10 words)
Children’s literature may be written off at first glance as not serious literature. (14 words)
Nimmagadda, a Comparative Literature major, said the book club offered him the chance to read literature by Asian authors. (19 words)
Dr. Jacqueline R. Marak, Executive member, summed up his contribution to A·chik Literature while Dr.Colnat B. Marak, Joint Secretary, observed that his writings, whether in religious vein or secular, all belong to the domain of literature written in Garo. (41 words)
Whether that exception applies to all forms of art or just literature; whether it applies to all forms of literature or just political polemics; whether it applies to all political polemics or just left-wing ones, only Bernie knows. (39 words)
It seems worth noting that the periods of medieval German literature span two or three centuries, those of early modern German literature span one century, and those of modern German literature each span one or two decades. (37 words)
Q: But if you were not given any input that suggested that “as an AI language model, I cannot create a polemic arguing that government funding of literature creates inferior literature”, how could you fashion any response? (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
World Literature TodayUniversity of Oklahoma's award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smith as the winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.
Czech postwar literature is tightly intertwined with the political state of postwar Czechoslovakia; as during the war, literature broke apart into three main branches: domestic published, domestic illegal, and exile literature.
It seems worth noting that the periods of medieval German literature span two or three centuries, those of early modern German literature span one century, and those of modern German literature each span one or two decades.
Literature and philosophy The 1492 Gramática by Antonio de Nebrija Andalusia plays a significant role in the history of Spanish language literature, however not all of the important literature associated with Andalusia was written in Spanish.
Literature main The Nobel literature prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez Jorge Isaacs was one of the greatest exponents of Colombian literature in the nineteenth century.
Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature", first published in 1927, is a historical survey of horror literature available with endnotes as The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature.
The literature of chivalry, bravery, figurative expression, and imagery made its way to Western literature through Arabic literature in Andalusia in particular.
Dr. Jacqueline R. Marak, Executive member, summed up his contribution to A·chik Literature while Dr.Colnat B. Marak, Joint Secretary, observed that his writings, whether in religious vein or secular, all belong to the domain of literature written in Garo.
Nimmagadda, a Comparative Literature major, said the book club offered him the chance to read literature by Asian authors.
Q: But if you were not given any input that suggested that “as an AI language model, I cannot create a polemic arguing that government funding of literature creates inferior literature”, how could you fashion any response?
The Asian American Literature Festiva l is making a return, the Asian American Literature Festival Collective said in a statement.
Tracy Ware, a retired professor of English literature at Queens University in Kingston, Ont., who taught a graduate course on Munro's work, described her as being "almost universally loved" by people in Canadian literature.
What literature you provide them with, and how you talk about both literature and identity, can have an immense, life-changing impact on the young people in your life.
I'm right now reviewing literature on this, recent literature.
The Campaigns and Elections team have developed a template that includes a comprehensive range of literature resources, including digital options, along with a bulk-buy literature and postage deal each month.
You don’t have to be a literature buff to have heard of the famous essay A Room of One's Own — a work that has gone on to become a classic piece of feminist literature.
Children’s literature may be written off at first glance as not serious literature.
Whether that exception applies to all forms of art or just literature; whether it applies to all forms of literature or just political polemics; whether it applies to all political polemics or just left-wing ones, only Bernie knows.
But to be familiar with that the worthiness of literature you should be comfortable with concept of literature and valuation.
Kind of that grey literature, doing that literature review piece of work, and then taking all of that and starting to have conversations with 5 communities, as part of the project, so one for each region.
Phrases with literature
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with literature
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- literature and 37×
- of literature 27×
- in literature 18×
- literature in 17×
- and literature 15×
- english literature 14×
- literature is 10×
- the literature 10×
- literature festival 7×
- literature was 7×