literary
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˈlɪtəˌrɛri/
- Literature
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literario
- Her stories have appeared in Story, High Plains Literary Review, Iowa Woman, and Other Voices.
- a literary style
- a literary work
- literary fiction
Those were his words that would shape high literary culture in America.
- Those were his words that would shape high literary culture in America.
- It's hard to see any difference between literary thinking and scientific thinking.
- So there's tons of terrific literary imagery surrounding black.
- This is a literary fiction book.
- No, but was there a literary group that were sort of, oh, doing well?
- Often they're more serious, they're more grown up, they're often more literary.
- It sounds that way, touching the innocent, monstrously cruel, and one of the truly great literary creations.
- Interestingly though, this is a scene which isn't described in the literary texts about the myth of the Trojan War.
- Well, Foo, the last thing you want in your head is a well developed literary character.
- You could say that what's going on here is something akin to personification in literary devices, right?
- But if you're interested in like more kind of like literary fiction or memoirs and things like that, give it.
- It's just a question of is that speech or is that a literary construct that came when people started to write?
Examples
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Computer programs are protected as literary works in the TRIPS Agreement today.
Academic text (1999) -
He wrote a literary analysis of the famous novel, exploring its themes and characters.
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Those were his words that would shape high literary culture in America.
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It's hard to see any difference between literary thinking and scientific thinking.
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I told you to ask him for literary, not economic, advice.
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I am a literary agent.
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This is a literary fiction book.
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"I think the future direction of Native American literary studies in Europe is quite clear."
Academic text (2011) -
So all, all these people came together at a time of a renaissance of literary and artistic collaboration between Britain and Greece.
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Your literary skills were exemplary, sublime.
Compounds
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4.3
A type of writing with a clear style about a certain topic, for example mystery stories
A piece of creative writing that shows thoughts and feelings, like a novel or poem
A time when many writers write books or poems in a similar way and about the same ideas
How Literary
Surface Forms
Morphology
literary = literature (transparent) = literature + ary
Formed by the clear adjectival derivation from 'literature' with '-ary', meaning 'relating to literature', which learners can readily infer.
Etymology
The word literary comes from the Latin littera meaning 'letter' and is the same root as letter and literature. So something 'literary' is like language from books and often sounds more formal and book-like than everyday speech.