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literary
English
Etymology
From French littéraire.
Pronunciation
- (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /?l?t????i/, /?l?t(?)?i/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /?l?t???(?)?i/, [???????(?)?i]
Adjective
literary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)
- Relating to literature.
- c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare
- He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
- c. 1768, Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York
- in the literary as well as fashionable world
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Bookish.
Synonyms
- bookly
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- literary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- literary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- trilayer
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