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lit·er·a·ture
(lĭt′ər-ə-cho͝or′, -chər)n.
1. The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
2. 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).
3. The art or occupation of a literary writer.
4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature.
5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject.
6. Music All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature.
[Middle English, book learning, from Old French litterature, from Latin litterātūra, from litterātus, lettered; see literate.]
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literature
(ˈlɪtərɪtʃə; ˈlɪtrɪ-)n
1. written material such as poetry, novels, essays, etc, esp works of imagination characterized by excellence of style and expression and by themes of general or enduring interest
2. the body of written work of a particular culture or people: Scandinavian literature.
3. written or printed matter of a particular type or on a particular subject: scientific literature; the literature of the violin.
4. printed material giving a particular type of information: sales literature.
5. the art or profession of a writer
6. obsolete learning
[C14: from Latin litterātūra writing; see letter]
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lit•er•a•ture
(ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə-)n.
1. writing in prose or verse regarded as having permanent worth through its intrinsic excellence.
2. the entire body of writings of a specific language, period, people, etc.
3. the writings dealing with a particular subject.
4. the profession of a writer or author.
5. literary work or production.
6. any kind of printed material, as circulars, leaflets, or handbills.
7. Archaic. literary culture; appreciation of letters and books.
[1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin litterātūra writing, basic education, literature]
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Literature
See also authors; books; criticism; dante; drama; language; language style; literary style; manuscripts; printing; reading; rhetoric and rhetorical devices; verse; writing.
the style and theories of the Greek writers of Alexandria, 325-30 B.C., whose style was highly ornamented and obscure and favored such forms as the elegy, epigram, epyllion, and lyric and also ventured into the drama. — Alexandrianist, n., adj.
an art form, as a story, painting, or sculpture, in which the components have a symbolic, figurative meaning. — allegorist, allegorizer, n. — allegorical, adj.
the placing of a scene, character, event, etc., where it clearly does not belong, either for special effect or as an oversight. See also anachronism. — anachoristic, adj.
an error in chronology, as the placing of an event or figure in a period or scene in which it did not or could not belong. — anachronistic, adj.
a collection of stories, poems, or other literary material. See also christianity. — anthologist, n.
the satirical or humorous use of a word or phrase to convey an idea exactly opposite to its real significance, as Shakespeare’s “honorable men” for Caesar’s murderers. — antiphrastic, adj.
the act or process of plagiarizing one’s own work.
the view that literature is a fine art, especially as having a purely aesthetic function. — belletrist, n. — belles lettres, n. — belletristic, adj.
an allegorical or moralizing commentary, usually medieval and sometimes illustrated, based upon real or fabled animals.
the condition of having a book on the bestseller list.
the expurgation of a literary work in a highly prudish manner. Also bowdlerization. — bowdlerize, v.
the revival in arts and letters in the 16th century in Italy. — cinquecentist, n., adj.
1. the act or art of analyzing the quality of something, especially a literary or artistic work, a musical or dramatic performance, etc.
2. a critical comment, article, or essay; critique. — critic, n.
2. a critical comment, article, or essay; critique. — critic, n.
a person who is well acquainted with culture, as literature, the arts, etc., and who advocates their worth to society.
the analysis of original texts or documents.
the art and literature of 13th-century Italy. — duecentist, n., adj.
the art or practice of writing letters. — epistolographic, adj.
an abnormal interest in erotic literature.
1. the habit of writing essays.
2. the quality that allows a composition to be called an essay. — essayist, n.
2. the quality that allows a composition to be called an essay. — essayist, n.
an anthology or select collection of literary pieces.
the writing or compilation of marginal or interlinear notes in a manuscript text. — glossographer, n.
a scholar of literature who shows parallels or harmony between passages from different authors. See also music.
a theory or practice of a group of English and American poets between 1909 and 1917, especially emphasis upon the use of common speech, new rhythms, unrestricted subject matter, and clear and precise images. — Imagist, n. — Imagistic, adj.
a member of an order of Armenian monks, founded in 1715 by Mekhitar da Pietro, dedicated to literary work, especially the perfecting of the Armenian language and the translation into it of the major works of other languages.
an emphasis in narrative or dramatic literary works on the sensational in situation or action. — melodramatist, n. — melodramatic, adj.
the art or practice of writing memoirs. — memoirist, n.
the excessively optimistic outlook of Wilkins Micawber, a character from Dickens’s novel David Copperfield. — Micawberish, adj.
1. ancient forms of writing, as in inscriptions, documents, and manuscripts.
2. the study of ancient writings, including decipherment, translation, and determination of age and date. — paleographer, palaeographer, n. — paleographic, palaeographic, adj.
2. the study of ancient writings, including decipherment, translation, and determination of age and date. — paleographer, palaeographer, n. — paleographic, palaeographic, adj.
the theories and practice of a school of French poets in the 19th century, especially an emphasis upon art for art’s sake, careful metrics, and the repression of emotive elements. — Parnassian, n., adj.
the quality of being hypocritical or selfish like Dickens’s character Seth Pecksniff in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit. — Pecksniffery, n. — Pecksniffian, adj.
an abnormal interest in pornography.
strict adherence to particular concepts, rules, or ideals of form, style, etc., either as formulated by the artist or as dictated by a school with which the artist is allied, See also art; criticism; language. — purist, n., adj.
a quality in literature that is the product of fidelity to the habits, speech, manners, history, folklore, and beliefs of a particular geographical section, as Thomas Hardy and Wessex. — regionalist, n. — regionalistic, adj.
an ancient commentator on the classics, especially the writing of marginalia (scholia) on grammatical and interpretive cruxes. — scholiastic, adj.
the writing of satires. — sillographer, n.
the systematic study of folklore and folk literature, especially concerning origin and transmission. — storiologist, n.
the actions or characteristics of the imaginary inhabitants of Luggnagg, a country created by Swift in Gulliver’s Travels.
the principles of a literary movement originated during the latter part of the 19th century in France and highly influential in literature written in English, characterized especially by an emphasis upon the associative character of verbal, often private, symbols and the use of synesthetic devices to suggest color and music. — Symbolist, n., adj.
1. a type of mythmaking or storytelling in which monsters and marvels are featured.
2. a collection of such stories. — teratologist, n. — teratological, adj.
2. a collection of such stories. — teratologist, n. — teratological, adj.
a series of four related works. — tetralogist, n. — tetralogical, adj.
the introduction of gods or supernatural entities into a dramatic or literary work, especially to resolve situations. — theotechnic, adj.
a series of three related works. — trilogist, n. — trilogical, adj.
the condition of having romantic qualities like Werther, a character from Goethe’s The Sorrows of Werther. — Wertherian, adj.
a variety of academic or literary research attempting to find the sources behind works of the imagination, named after a noted study of this kind, John Livingston Lowes’ Road to Xanadu (1927), an inquiry into Coleridge’s poem, “Xanadu.” — Xanaduist, n., adj.
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| Noun | 1. |  literature - creative writing of recognized artistic valueliterature - the profession or art of a writer; "her place in literature is secure" steed - (literary) a spirited horse for state or war deconstruction, deconstructionism - a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning lit, literature - the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit" piece of writing, written material, writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" literature - published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature" flashback - a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story flash-forward - a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to a later event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story editing, redaction - putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form Sanskrit literature - Hindu literature written in Sanskrit republication - something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work) rosebud - (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl tempest - (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island" tension - a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history" longueur - a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) |
| 2. |  literature - the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit"literary study - the humanistic study of literature literature - creative writing of recognized artistic value | |
| 3. | literature - published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature" piece of writing, written material, writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" literature - creative writing of recognized artistic value historiography - a body of historical literature | |
| 4. | literature - the profession or art of a writer; "her place in literature is secure" profession - an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) literature - creative writing of recognized artistic value |
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literature
noun
1. writings, letters, compositions, lore, creative writing, written works, belles-lettres classic works of literature
2. information, publicity, leaflet, brochure, circular, pamphlet, handout, mailshot, handbill I'm sending you literature from two other companies. see figures of speech, Shakespeare
Quotations
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature" [Henry James Hawthorne]
"Remarks are not literature" [Gloria Steinem Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]
"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about children; life is the other way around" [David Lodge The British Museum is Falling Down]
"Literature is news that STAYS news" [Ezra Pound ABC of Reading]
"Literature is a luxury. Fiction is a necessity" [G.K. Chesterton The Defendant]
"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart" [Salman Rushdie]
"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen" [Samuel Lover Handy Andy]
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature" [Henry James Hawthorne]
"Remarks are not literature" [Gloria Steinem Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]
"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about children; life is the other way around" [David Lodge The British Museum is Falling Down]
"Literature is news that STAYS news" [Ezra Pound ABC of Reading]
"Literature is a luxury. Fiction is a necessity" [G.K. Chesterton The Defendant]
"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart" [Salman Rushdie]
"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen" [Samuel Lover Handy Andy]
Literature
Literature terms allegory, alliteration, allusion, amphigory or amphigouri, Angry Young Men, anti-hero, antinovel, anti-roman, aphorism, archaism, Augustan, Bakhtinian, bathos, Beat Generation or Beats, belles-lettres, belletrist, bibliography, Bildungsroman, black comedy, Bloomsbury group, bodice-ripper, bombast, bowdlerization, Brechtian, bricolage, Byronic, carnivalesque, campus novel, causerie, Celtic Revival, cento, chiller, Ciceronian, classicism, coda, colloquialism, comedy, comedy of manners, commedia dell'arte, conceit, courtly love, cultural materialism, cut-up technique, cyberpunk, death of the author, decadence, deconstruction, denouement, Derridian, dialectic, dialogue, Dickensian, discourse, double entendre, drama, epic, epilogue, epistle, epistolary novel, epitaph, erasure, essay, exegesis, expressionism, fable, fabulist, faction, fantastique, fantasy, feminist theory, festschrift, figure of speech, fin de siècle, foreword, Foucauldian, Futurism, gloss, Gongorism, Gothic, hagiography, Hellenism, hermeneutics, historical novel, historicism, Homeric, Horatian, hudibrastic verse, imagery, interior monologue, intertextuality, invective, Jacobean, Janeite, Johnsonian, journalese, Joycean, Juvenalian, Kafkaesque, kailyard, kenning, kiddy lit, lampoon, Laurentian or Lawrentian, legend, literary criticism, littérateur, locus classicus, Lost Generation, magic realism or magical realism, marxist theory, maxim, melodrama, metafiction, metalanguage, metaphor, mock-heroic, modernism, motif, myth, mythopoeia, narrative, narratology, narrator, naturalism, new criticism, new historicism, nom de plume, nouveau roman, novel, novelette, novella, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, palindrome, paraphrase, parody, pastiche, pastoral, pathos, picaresque, plagiarism, plot, polemic, pornography, post-colonialism, postmodernism, post-structuralism, post-theory, pot-boiler, queer theory, realism, Restoration comedy, roman, roman à clef, Romanticism, saga, samizdat, satire, science fiction or SF, sentimental novel, shopping-and-fucking or S & F novel, short story, signifier and signified, simile, sketch, socialist realism, splatterpunk, Spoonerism, story, stream of consciousness, structuralism, Sturm und Drang, subplot, subtext, Surrealism, Swiftian, theme, theory, thesis, tragedy, tragicomedy, trope, verse, vignette
Literary characters
| Character | Book | Author | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captain Ahab | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |||
| Aladdin | The Arabian Nights' Entertainments | Traditional | |||
| Alice | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | |||
| Bridget Allworthy | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | |||
| Squire Allworthy | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | |||
| Blanch Amory | Pendennis | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Harry Angstrom | Rabbit, Run et al. | John Updike | |||
| Artful Dodger | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jack Aubrey | Master and Commander et al. | Patrick O'Brian | |||
| Aunt Polly | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | |||
| Joe Bagstock | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| David Balfour | Kidnapped, Catriona | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Mrs. Bardell | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Barkis | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jake Barnes | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | |||
| Adam Bede | Adam Bede | George Eliot | |||
| Seth Bede | Adam Bede | George Eliot | |||
| Laura Bell | Pendennis | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Elizabeth Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Jane Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Kitty Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Lydia Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Mary Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Mr. Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Mrs. Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Edmund Bertram | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Julia Bertram | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Lady Bertram | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Maria Bertram | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Sir Thomas Bertram | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Tom Bertram | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Biddy | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Charles Bingley | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Stephen Blackpool | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Anthony Blanche | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | |||
| Leopold Bloom | Ulysses | James Joyce | |||
| Molly Bloom | Ulysses | James Joyce | |||
| Mr. Boffin | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Boffin | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Farmer Boldwood | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Josiah Bounderby | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Madeline Bray | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Alan Breck | Kidnapped, Catriona | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Sue Bridehead | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Miss Briggs | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Dorothea Brooke | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Mr. Brooke | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Mr. Brownlow | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Daisy Buchanan | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| Rosa Bud | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Billy Budd | Billy Budd, Foretopman | Herman Melville | |||
| Mr. Bulstrode | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Bumble | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Cadwallader | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Carker | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Richard Carstone | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sydney Carton | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mr. Casaubon | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Casby | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Flora Casby | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dunstan Cass | Silas Marner | George Eliot | |||
| Godfrey Cass | Silas Marner | George Eliot | |||
| Lady Castlewood | Henry Esmond | William Makepeace Thackeray | Lord Castlewood | Henry Esmond | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Holden Caulfield | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | |||
| Chadband | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Constance Chatterley | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | |||
| The Cheeryble Brothers | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Edward Chester | Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sir James Chettam | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Chuffey | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Frank Churchill | Emma | Jane Austen | |||
| Jonas Chuzzlewit | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Martin Chuzzlewit | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Ada Clare | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Angel Clare | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Arthur Clennam | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Humphry Clinker | Humphry Clinker | Tobias Smollett | |||
| William Collins | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Benjy Compson | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | |||
| David Copperfield | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Emily Costigan | Pendennis | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Bob Cratchit | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | |||
| Henry Crawford | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Mary Crawford | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| Bute Crawley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Miss Crawley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Mrs. Bute Crawley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Pitt Crawley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Rawdon Crawley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Sir Pitt Crawley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Septimus Crisparkle | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Vincent Crummles | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jerry Cruncher | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |||
| Robinson Crusoe | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | |||
| Captain Cuttle | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sebastian Dangerfield | The Ginger Man | J. P. Donleavy | |||
| Fitzwilliam Darcy | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Charles Darnay | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |||
| Elinor Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| John Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| Margaret Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| Marianne Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| Mrs. Henry Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| Dick Datchery | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Fancy Day | Under The Greenwood Tree | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Lady Catherine de Bourgh | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Stephen Dedalus | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses | James Joyce | |||
| Sir Leicester Dedlock | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Lady Dedlock | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Madame Defarge | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dick Dewy | Under The Greenwood Tree | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Mr. Dick | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jim Dixon | Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | |||
| William Dobbin | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Mr. Dombey | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Florence Dombey | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Don Quixote | Don Quixote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes | |||
| Arabella Donn | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Lorna Doone | Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore | |||
| Amy Dorrit or Little Dorrit | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Fanny Dorrit | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Tip Dorrit | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| William Dorrit | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Edwin Drood | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Bentley Drummle | Great Expectations | ||||
| Catriona Drummond | Catriona | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Dickens | ||
| Alec D'Urberville | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Tess Durbeyfield | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Catherine Earnshaw | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | |||
| Hareton Earnshaw | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | |||
| Hindley Earnshaw | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | |||
| Anne Elliot | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |||
| Elizabeth Elliot | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |||
| Sir Walter Elliot | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |||
| Em'ly | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Eppie | Silas Marner | George Eliot | |||
| Esmeralda | Notre Dame de Paris | Victor Hugo | |||
| Beatrix Esmond | Henry Esmond | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Henry Esmond | Henry Esmond | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Estella | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Bathsheba Everdene | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | |||
| Fagin | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Andrew Fairservice | Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott | |||
| Donald Farfrae | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Jude Fawley | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Edward Ferrars | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| Huck or Huckleberry Finn | Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |||
| Miss Flite | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Julia Flyte | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | |||
| Sebastian Flyte | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | |||
| Phileas Fogg | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | |||
| Man Friday | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | |||
| Sarah Gamp | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Joe Gargery | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jay Gatsby | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| Walter Gay | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Solomon Gills | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Louisa Gradgrind | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Thomas Gradgrind | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Tom Gradgrind | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mary Graham | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Edith Granger | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dorian Gray | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | |||
| Mr. Grewgious | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Grundy | Speed the Plough | T. Morton | |||
| Ben Gunn | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Chris Guthrie | Sunset Song et al. | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | |||
| Ham | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Richard Hannay | The Thirty-nine Steps et al. | John Buchan | |||
| Emma Haredale | Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens | |||
| John Harmon | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| James Harthouse | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Miss Havisham | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sir Mulberry Hawk | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jim Hawkins | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Bradley Headstone | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Heathcliff | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | |||
| Uriah Heep | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Michael Henchard | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Lizzy Hexam | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Betty Higden | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sherlock Holmes | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes et al. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
| Humbert Humbert | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | |||
| Mr. Hyde | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Injun Joe | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | |||
| Ishmael | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |||
| Jaggers | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| John Jarndyce | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Bailie Nicol Jarvie | Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott | |||
| John Jasper | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jeeves | My Man Jeeves et al. | P. G. Wodehouse | |||
| Dr. Jekyll | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Mrs. Jellyby | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Jennings | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| Jim | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |||
| Lord Jim | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | |||
| Jingle | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jo | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Cissy Jupe | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Joseph K. | The Trial | Franz Kafka | |||
| George Knightley | Emma | Jane Austen | |||
| Krook | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Kurtz | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | |||
| Will Ladislaw | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Helena Landless | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Neville Landless | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Edgar Linton | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | |||
| Isabella Linton | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | |||
| Dr. Livesey | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Tertius Lydgate | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Rob Roy Macgregor | Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott | |||
| Randle P. McMurphy | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | |||
| Abel Magwitch | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dr. Manette | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |||
| Lucie Manette | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |||
| Madame Mantalini | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| The Marchioness | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jacob Marley | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | |||
| Philip Marlowe | The Big Sleep et al. | Raymond Chandler | |||
| Silas Marner | Silas Marner | George Eliot | |||
| Stephen Maturin | Master and Commander et al. | Patrick O'Brian | |||
| Oliver Mellors | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | |||
| Merdle | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Merdle | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Wilkins Micawber | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Walter Mitty | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber | |||
| Lord Mohun | Henry Esmond | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Monks | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dean Moriarty | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | |||
| Professor Moriarty | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes et al. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
| Dinah Morris | Adam Bede | George Eliot | |||
| Murdstone | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Grundy | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Baron Münchhausen | Münchhausen, Baron, Narrative of His Marvellous Travels | R. E. Raspe | |||
| Nancy | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Little Nell | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |||
| Captain Nemo | Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea | Jules Verne | |||
| Kate Nickleby | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Nicholas Nickleby | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Ralph Nickleby | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Newman Noggs | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Susan Nipper | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Kit Nubbles | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |||
| Gabriel Oak | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Glorvina O'Dowd | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Major O'Dowd | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Mrs. O'Dowd | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Francis Osbaldistone | Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott | |||
| Rashleigh Osbaldistone | Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott | |||
| George Osborne | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Pancks | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sancho Panza | Don Quixote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes | |||
| Sal Paradise | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | |||
| Passepartout | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | |||
| Pecksniff | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Charity Pecksniff | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mercy Pecksniff | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Peggoty | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Arthur Pendennis | Pendennis | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Helen Pendennis | Pendennis | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Pew | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Samuel Pickwick | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Ruth Pinch | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Tom Pinch | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Pip or Philip Pirrip | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Herbert Pocket | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Charles Pooter | The Diary of a Nobody | G. and W. Grossmith | |||
| Martin Poyser | Adam Bede | George Eliot | |||
| Mrs. Poyser | Adam Bede | George Eliot | |||
| Fanny Price | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | |||
| J. Alfred Prufrock | Prufrock and Other Observations | T. S. Eliot | |||
| Pumblechook | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Quasimodo | Notre Dame de Paris | Victor Hugo | |||
| Queequeg | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |||
| Daniel Quilp | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |||
| Roderick Random | Roderick Random | Tobias Smollett | |||
| Riah | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Rogue Riderhood | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Fanny Robin | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Mr. Rochester | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | |||
| Barnaby Rudge | Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens | |||
| Lady Russell | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |||
| Charles Ryder | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | |||
| Tom Sawyer | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | |||
| Scrooge | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | |||
| Amelia Sedley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Jos Sedley | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Tristram Shandy | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | |||
| Becky or Rebecca Sharp | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Bill Sikes | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Long John Silver | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Harold Skimpole | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sleary | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Smike | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Harriet Smith | Emma | Jane Austen | |||
| Winston Smith | 1984 | George Orwell | |||
| Augustus Snodgrass | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Hetty Sorrel | Adam Bede | George Eliot | |||
| Lady Southdown | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Mrs. Sparsit | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dora Spenlow | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Wackford Squeers | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |||
| Starbuck | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |||
| Lucy Steele | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| James Steerforth | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Lord Steyne | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Esther Summerson | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dick Swiveller | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mark Tapley | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Tartuffe | Tartuffe | Molière | |||
| Mr. Tartar | Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | |||
| Tarzan | Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |||
| Becky Thatcher | Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | |||
| Montague Tigg | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Tiny Tim | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Todgers | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |||
| Toots | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |||
| Traddles | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Squire Trelawney | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
| Fred Trent | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |||
| Job Trotter | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Betsey Trotwood | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sergeant Troy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Tulkinghorn | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Tracy Tupman | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Thomas Tusher | Henry Esmond | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Oliver Twist | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| Gabriel Varden | Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dolly Varden | Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mr. Veneering | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Mrs. Veneering | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Diggory Venn | Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Diana Vernon | Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott | |||
| Rosamond Vincy | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| Johann Voss | Voss | Patrick White | |||
| Eustacia Vye | Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | |||
| George Warrington | Pendennis | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
| Dr. Watson | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes et al. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
| Silas Wegg | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Sam Weller | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Wemmick | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| Frank Wentworth | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |||
| Agnes Wickfield | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| George Wickham | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| Damon Wildeve | Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Bella Wilfer | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| John Willoughby | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
| Nathaniel Winkle | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | |||
| Dolly Winthrop | Silas Marner | George Eliot | |||
| Allan Woodcourt | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| Emma Woodhouse | Emma | Jane Austen | |||
| Mr. Woodhouse | Emma | Jane Austen | |||
| Bertie Wooster | My Man Jeeves et al. | P. G. Wodehouse | |||
| Eugene Wrayburn | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Jenny Wren | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |||
| Clym Yeobright | Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Thomasin Yeobright | Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | |||
| Yossarian | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | |||
| Yuri Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | |||
| Zorba or Alexis Zorbas | Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis |
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
أَدَبُأدَب
literatura
litteratur
kirjallisuus
književnost
irodalom
bókmenntir
文学
문학
literatūra
literatūra
literatúra
književnost
litteratur
วรรณคดี
văn học
literature
[ˈlɪtərɪtʃəʳ] N1. (= writings) → literatura f
2. (= promotional material) → información f, publicidad f
3. (= learned studies of subject) → estudios mpl, bibliografía f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
literature
[ˈlɪtrətʃər] n (= novels, poetry, plays) → littérature f
I'm studying English Literature → J'étudie la littérature anglaise.
I'm studying English Literature → J'étudie la littérature anglaise.
(= information) → prospectus mpl
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
literature
n → Literatur f; (inf: = brochures etc) → Informationsmaterial nt; (= specialist literature) → (Fach)literatur f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
literature
[ˈlɪt/ərɪtʃəʳ] n (publications) (Literature) → letteratura; (brochures) → opuscoli mpl, materiale m, informativoCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
literature
(ˈlitrətʃə) noun poems, novels, plays etc in verse or prose, especially if of fine quality.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
literature
→ أَدَبُ literatura litteratur Literatur λογοτεχνία literatura kirjallisuus littérature književnost letteratura 文学 문학 literatuur litteratur literatura literatura литература litteratur วรรณคดี edebiyat văn học 文学作品Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009