belles-lettres

English

Alternative forms

• belles lettres

Etymology

Borrowing from French

Noun

Wikipedia belles-lettres (uncountable)

1. literary works valued more for their aesthetic qualities than for any informative or educational content

Related terms

• belletristic

Translations

literary works valued more for their aesthetic qualities than for any informative or educational content

• Arabic: أدب (ar) (ʾádab) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 純文學 (cmn), 纯文学 (cmn) (chúnwénxué)

• Czech: beletrie (cs) f
• Dutch: bellettrie (nl)
• Esperanto: beletro (eo), beletristiko (eo)
• French: belles-lettres (fr) f pl

• German: Belles Lettres (de) f pl, schöne Literatur (de) f, Belletristik (de) f
• Hungarian: szépirodalom (hu)
• Japanese: 純文学 (ja) (じゅんぶんがく, junbungaku)
• Romanian: beletristică (ro) f
• Russian: художественная литература (ru) (xudóžestvennaja literatúra) f, беллетристика (ru) (belletrístika) f