Word Meaning

Meaning of literature

- Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
- The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
- The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
- The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.

Crossword clue for literature

- Body of writings
- Creative writing
- Poetry, novels and plays
- Printed matter
- Rare title you mixed up with reading material
- Writings
- Written works