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literatuer (obsolete)

The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 373:
  The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?ʼ The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
  Category:English terms with quotations#LITERATURE
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 3:
  In fact, information on when each of the terms first appeared in English, and if obsolete, how long they persisted, is entirely absent from the literature.
  Category:English terms with quotations#LITERATURE
Written fiction of a high standard.
- 2008, Adam Cadre
  However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories.
Synonym: literary fiction
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#LITERATURE) Literacy; ability to read and write.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times: A Novel:
  They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.
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body of all written works

Category:Entries with translation boxes#LITERATURE

Afrikaans: letterkunde (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#LITERATURE, literatuurCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#LITERATURE
Albanian: literaturë (sq)Category:Terms with Albanian translations#LITERATURE, letërsi (sq)Category:Terms with Albanian translations#LITERATURE
Amharic: ሥነ ጽሑፍ (śənä ṣəḥuf)Category:Terms with Amharic translations#LITERATURE
Arabic: أَدَب (ar) m (ʔadab)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#LITERATURE, أَدَبِيَّات f pl (ʔadabiyyāt)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#LITERATURE
Aragonese: literatura fCategory:Terms with Aragonese translations#LITERATURE
Armenian: գրականություն (hy) (grakanutʻyun)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#LITERATURE
Assamese: সাহিত্য (xahiitto)Category:Terms with Assamese translations#LITERATURE
Asturian: lliteratura fCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#LITERATURE
Azerbaijani: ədəbiyyat (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#LITERATURE
Bashkir: әҙәбиәт (əźəbiət)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#LITERATURE
Basque: literatura (eu)Category:Terms with Basque translations#LITERATURE
Belarusian: літарату́ра (be) f (litaratúra)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#LITERATURE, пісьме́нства n (pisʹmjénstva)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#LITERATURE
Bengali: সাহিত্য (bn) (śahitto)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#LITERATURE
Breton: lennegezh (br) fCategory:Terms with Breton translations#LITERATURE
Bulgarian: литерату́ра (bg) f (literatúra)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#LITERATURE, слове́сност (bg) f (slovésnost)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#LITERATURE, кни́жнина (bg) f (knížnina)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#LITERATURE
Burmese: စာပေ (my) (cape)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#LITERATURE
Carpathian Rusyn: літерату́ра f (literatúra)Category:Terms with Carpathian Rusyn translations#LITERATURE
Catalan: literatura (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#LITERATURE
Chinese:
Cantonese: 文學 / 文学 (man⁴ hok⁶)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#LITERATURE

Dungan: вынщуә (vɨnxuə)Category:Terms with Dungan translations#LITERATURE

Eastern Min: 文學 / 文学 (ùng-hŏk)Category:Terms with Eastern Min translations#LITERATURE

Hakka: 文學 / 文学 (vùn-ho̍k)Category:Terms with Hakka translations#LITERATURE

Hokkien: 文學 / 文学 (zh-min-nan) (bûn-ha̍k)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#LITERATURE

Mandarin: 文學 / 文学 (zh) (wénxué)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#LITERATURE

Wu: 文學 / 文学 (⁶ven-yaq)Category:Terms with Wu translations#LITERATURE
Cornish: lien mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#LITERATURE
Czech: literatura (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#LITERATURE, písemnictví (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#LITERATURE, slovesnost (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#LITERATURE
Danish: litteratur (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#LITERATURE
Dhivehi: އަދަބިއްޔާތު (adabiyyātu)Category:Terms with Dhivehi translations#LITERATURE
Dutch: literatuur (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#LITERATURE
Esperanto: literaturoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#LITERATURE
Estonian: literatuurCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#LITERATURE, kirjandusCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#LITERATURE
Faroese: bókmentir f plCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#LITERATURE
Finnish: kirjallisuus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#LITERATURE
French: littérature (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#LITERATURE
Galician: literatura (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#LITERATURE
Georgian: ლიტერატურა (liṭeraṭura)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#LITERATURE
German: Literatur (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#LITERATURE
Greek: λογοτεχνία (el) f (logotechnía)Category:Terms with Greek translations#LITERATURE, βιβλιογραφία (el) f (vivliografía)Category:Terms with Greek translations#LITERATURE
Gujarati: સાહિત્ય (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Gujarati translations#LITERATURE
Hebrew: סִפְרוּת (he) f (sifrút)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#LITERATURE
Hiligaynon: panulatCategory:Terms with Hiligaynon translations#LITERATURE
Hindi: साहित्य (hi) m (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#LITERATURE
Hungarian: irodalom (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#LITERATURE
Icelandic: bókmenntir (is) f plCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#LITERATURE
Ido: literaturo (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#LITERATURE
Indonesian: kesusasteraan (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#LITERATURE
Interlingua: litteraturaCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#LITERATURE
Irish: litríocht fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#LITERATURE
Italian: letteratura (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#LITERATURE
Japanese: 文学 (ja) (ぶんがく, bungaku)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#LITERATURE, 文献 (ja) (ぶんけん, bunken)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#LITERATURE
Javanese: sastraCategory:Terms with Javanese translations#LITERATURE
Kannada: ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ (kn) (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Kannada translations#LITERATURE
Kashubian: lëteratura fCategory:Terms with Kashubian translations#LITERATURE
Kazakh: әдебиет (kk) (ädebiet)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#LITERATURE
Khmer: អក្សរសាស្ត្រ (km) (ʼaksɑɑ saah)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#LITERATURE
Korean: 문학(文學) (ko) (munhak)Category:Terms with Korean translations#LITERATURE
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: edebiyat (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#LITERATURE, lîteratûr (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#LITERATURE
Kyrgyz: адабият (ky) (adabiyat)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#LITERATURE, жазын (jazın)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#LITERATURE
Lao: ວັນນະຄະດີ (lo) (wan na kha dī)Category:Terms with Lao translations#LITERATURE
Latin: litterae (la) f plCategory:Terms with Latin translations#LITERATURE
Latvian: literatūra fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#LITERATURE
Limburgish: literatuur (li)Category:Terms with Limburgish translations#LITERATURE
Lithuanian: literatūrà (lt) fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#LITERATURE
Low German: LiteraturCategory:Terms with Low German translations#LITERATURE
Luxembourgish: LiteraturCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#LITERATURE
Macedonian: литерату́ра f (literatúra)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#LITERATURE, книжевност f (kniževnost)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#LITERATURE
Malay: kesusasteraan (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#LITERATURE, sastera (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#LITERATURE, persuratan (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#LITERATURE
Malayalam: സാഹിത്യം (ml) (sāhityaṁ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#LITERATURE
Maltese: letteratura fCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#LITERATURE
Maori: mātātuhiCategory:Terms with Maori translations#LITERATURE (written), mātākōreroCategory:Terms with Maori translations#LITERATURE, mātāwahaCategory:Terms with Maori translations#LITERATURE (oral)
Marathi: साहित्य (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Marathi translations#LITERATURE
Mirandese: lhiteratura fCategory:Terms with Mirandese translations#LITERATURE
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: утга зохиол (utga zoxiol)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#LITERATURE
Nepali: साहित्य (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Nepali translations#LITERATURE
Norman: littéthatuthe fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#LITERATURE (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: litteratur (no) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#LITERATURE

Nynorsk: litteratur mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#LITERATURE
Occitan: literatura (oc) fCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#LITERATURE
Odia: ସାହିତ୍ୟ (or) (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Odia translations#LITERATURE
Old English: bōccræft mCategory:Terms with Old English translations#LITERATURE
Pashto: ادبپوهنه (ps) f (adabpohǝna)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#LITERATURE, ادب (ps) m (adab)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#LITERATURE
Persian:
Iranian Persian: اَدَبِیَّات (adabiyyât)Category:Terms with Persian translations#LITERATURE, اَدَبِیات (adabiyât)Category:Terms with Persian translations#LITERATURE, اَدَب (adab)Category:Terms with Persian translations#LITERATURE
Plautdietsch: Schreft fCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#LITERATURE
Polish: literatura (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#LITERATURE
Portuguese: literatura (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#LITERATURE
Punjabi: ਸਾਹਿਤ (pa) (sāhit)Category:Terms with Punjabi translations#LITERATURE
Romanian: literatură (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#LITERATURE
Russian: литерату́ра (ru) f (literatúra)Category:Terms with Russian translations#LITERATURE, слове́сность (ru) f (slovésnostʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#LITERATURE (less common)
Sanskrit: साहित्य (sa) n (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#LITERATURE
Scots: leiteraturCategory:Terms with Scots translations#LITERATURE
Scottish Gaelic: litreachas mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#LITERATURE
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: књи̏же̄вно̄ст fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE, литерату́ра fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE

Roman: knjȉžēvnōst (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE, literatúra (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE
Sicilian: littiratura (scn)Category:Terms with Sicilian translations#LITERATURE
Sindhi: ادب (adab)Category:Terms with Sindhi translations#LITERATURE
Sinhalese: සාහිත්‍යය (sāhityaya)Category:Terms with Sinhalese translations#LITERATURE
Slovak: literatúra (sk) fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#LITERATURE, písomníctvo nCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#LITERATURE, slovesnosť fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#LITERATURE
Slovene: književnost (sl) fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#LITERATURE, literatura (sl) fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#LITERATURE
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: literatura fCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#LITERATURE

Upper Sorbian: literatura (hsb) fCategory:Terms with Upper Sorbian translations#LITERATURE
Spanish: literatura (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#LITERATURE
Swahili: fasihi (sw) class nCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#LITERATURE
Swedish: litteratur (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#LITERATURE,
Tagalog: literaturaCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#LITERATURE, panitikan (tl)Category:Terms with Tagalog translations#LITERATURE
Tajik: адабиёт (tg) (adabiyot)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#LITERATURE, адаб (tg) (adab)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#LITERATURE
Tamil: இலக்கியம் (ta) (ilakkiyam)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#LITERATURE
Tatar: әдәбият (tt) (ädäbiyat)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#LITERATURE
Telugu: సాహిత్యం (sāhityaṁ)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#LITERATURE
Thai: วรรณกรรม (th) (wan-ná-gam)Category:Terms with Thai translations#LITERATURE, วรรณคดี (th) (wan-ná-ká-dii)Category:Terms with Thai translations#LITERATURE
Turkish: literatür (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#LITERATURE, edebiyat (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#LITERATURE, yazın (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#LITERATURE
Turkmen: edebiýatCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#LITERATURE
Ukrainian: літерату́ра (uk) f (literatúra)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#LITERATURE, письме́нництво n (pysʹménnyctvo)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#LITERATURE, письме́нство n (pysʹménstvo)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#LITERATURE
Urdu: اَدَب m (adab)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#LITERATURE, اَدَبِیات f (adabiyāt)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#LITERATURE, اَدَبِیَّات f (adabiyyāt)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#LITERATURE, ساہِتْیَہ m (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#LITERATURE
Uyghur: ئەدەبىيات (ug) (edebiyat)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#LITERATURE
Uzbek: adabiyot (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#LITERATURE
Vietnamese: văn chương (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#LITERATURE (文章Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#LITERATURE), văn học (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#LITERATURE (文學Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#LITERATURE)
Volapük: literat (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#LITERATURE
Welsh: llênCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#LITERATURE
West Frisian: literatuerCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#LITERATURE
Yiddish: ליטעראַטור f (literatur)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#LITERATURE
Zhuang: vwnzyozCategory:Terms with Zhuang translations#LITERATURE (文學Category:Terms with Zhuang translations#LITERATURE)

the collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture

Category:Entries with translation boxes#LITERATURE

Afrikaans: letterkunde (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#LITERATURE, literatuurCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#LITERATURE
Bashkir: әҙәбиәт (əźəbiət)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#LITERATURE
Bulgarian: литература (bg) f (literatura)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#LITERATURE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文學 / 文学 (zh) (wénxué)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#LITERATURE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#LITERATURE
Finnish: kirjallisuus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#LITERATURE
Galician: literatura (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#LITERATURE
Hindi: साहित्य (hi) m (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#LITERATURE
Icelandic: bókmenntir (is) f plCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#LITERATURE
Irish: litríocht fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#LITERATURE
Japanese: 文学 (ja) (ぶんがく, bungaku)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#LITERATURE
Korean: 문학(文學) (ko) (munhak)Category:Terms with Korean translations#LITERATURE
Maori: mātātuhiCategory:Terms with Maori translations#LITERATURE
Plautdietsch: Schreft fCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#LITERATURE
Portuguese: literatura (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#LITERATURE
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: књи̏же̄вно̄ст fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE

Roman: knjȉžēvnōst (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE
Spanish: literatura (es) f or cCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#LITERATURE
Swedish: litteratur (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#LITERATURE
Thai: วรรณคดี (th) (wan-ná-ká-dii)Category:Terms with Thai translations#LITERATURE

all the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject

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Afrikaans: literatuurCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#LITERATURE
Bashkir: әҙәбиәт (əźəbiət)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#LITERATURE
Bulgarian: литература (bg) f (literatura)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#LITERATURE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文獻 / 文献 (zh) (wénxiàn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#LITERATURE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#LITERATURE
Finnish: kirjallisuus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#LITERATURE
French: littérature (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#LITERATURE
Hungarian: szakirodalom (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#LITERATURE
Indonesian: literatur (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#LITERATURE
Irish: litríocht fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#LITERATURE
Italian: letteratura (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#LITERATURE
Japanese: 文献 (ja) (ぶんけん, bunken)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#LITERATURE, 資料 (ja) (しりょう, shiryō)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#LITERATURE
Korean: 문헌(文献) (ko) (munheon)Category:Terms with Korean translations#LITERATURE
Maori: mātātuhiCategory:Terms with Maori translations#LITERATURE
Norman: littéthatuthe fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#LITERATURE (Jersey)
Polish: literatura (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#LITERATURE
Portuguese: literatura (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#LITERATURE
Russian: литерату́ра (ru) f (literatúra)Category:Terms with Russian translations#LITERATURE
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: литерату́ра fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE

Roman: literatúra (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#LITERATURE
Spanish: literatura (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#LITERATURE
Swedish: litteratur (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#LITERATURE
Thai: วรรณกรรม (th) (wan-ná-gam)Category:Terms with Thai translations#LITERATURE

written fiction of high standard

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Bulgarian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Bulgarian#LITERATURE
Finnish: kaunokirjallisuus (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#LITERATURE
Indonesian: literatur (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#LITERATURE

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked‌: "not sure those should be listed as separate senses, though"

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Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} ئاداب (adab)Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#LITERATURE Category:Requests for review of Central Kurdish translations#LITERATURE
Marathi: ^{(please verify)} साहित्य (sāhitya)Category:Terms with Marathi translations#LITERATURE Category:Requests for review of Marathi translations#LITERATURE

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literateur, literatuer

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