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lit·er·a·ture
 (l  t   r-  -ch  r  , -ch  r)
KEY
NOUN:
- The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
- Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value:
"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity"
(Rebecca West).
- The art or occupation of a literary writer.
- The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field:
medical literature.
- Printed material:
collected all the available literature on the subject.
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Music
All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble:
the symphonic literature.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, book learning, from Old French litterature, from Latin litter t ra, from litter tus, lettered ; see
literate
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