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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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
  4. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
  5. 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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subtext

English

Etymology

sub- +? text

Noun

subtext (plural subtexts)

  1. (authorship) The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.

Derived terms

  • subtextual

Descendants

  • ? Hebrew: ???????? (sábtekst)

See also

  • subcurrent
  • undercurrent

Translations

Anagrams

  • butt sex, buttsex

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