literary

English Online Dictionary. What means literary‎? What does literary mean?

English

Etymology

From French littéraire.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtəɹəɹi/, /ˈlɪt(ə)ɹi/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtəɹɛ(ə)ɹi/, [ˈɫɪɾəɹɛ(ə)ɹi]

Adjective

literary (comparative more literary, superlative most literary)

1. Relating to literature.
2. Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
3. Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
4. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
5. Bookish.

Synonyms

• bookly

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Further reading

• “literary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “literary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• trilayer