literary
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French littéraire.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
literary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)
- Relating to literature.
- literary fame
- a literary history
- literary conversation
- (Can we date this quote by Johnson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- a literary man
- (Can we date this quote by Mason and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- in the literary as well as fashionable world
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Bookish.
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Translations
relating to literature
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relating to writers, or the profession of literature
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knowledgeable of literature or writing
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appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing
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bookish — see bookish
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Further reading
- “literary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “literary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.