literature

Main Entry:
literature [lit-er-uh-cher, -choor, li-truh-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written matter, both fictional and nonfictional
Synonyms: abstract, article, belles-lettres, biography, books, brochure, classics, comment, composition, critique, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, drama, essay, exposition, findings, history, humanities, information, leaflet, letters, lit, literary works, lore, novel, observation, pamphlet, paper, poetry, prose, précis, report, research, story, summary, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, treatment, writings, written work
Antonyms: speech
Main Entry: circular
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: handbill
Synonyms: advertisement, booklet, broadside, brochure, flyer, handout, insert, leaflet, literature, notice, pamphlet, poster, publication, throwaway
Main Entry: learning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: education, knowledge
Synonyms: acquirements, attainments, culture, erudition, information, letters, literature, lore, research, scholarship, schooling, science, study, training, tuition, wisdom
Antonyms: ignorance
Main Entry: writing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: printed composition
Synonyms: article, belles-lettres, book, discourse, dissertation, document, editorial, essay, letter, literature, manuscript, novel, ode, opus, pamphlet, paper, piece, play, poem, prose, publication, record, review, signature, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, work
Main Entry: liberal arts
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: general knowledge studies
Synonyms: general education, history, language, liberal studies, literature, mathematics, philosophy, science, trivium and quadrivium
Main Entry: printed matter
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: printed document
Synonyms: book, copy, literature, magazine, newspaper, print, printed material, reading matter, written word
Related Words
Main Entry: writing
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
Apollonian, Attic, Byronic, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Parnassian, Rabelaisian, Renaissance, Victorian, allonymous, anepigraphous, anonymous, anopisthographic, auctorial, battological, bibliophagic, bucolic, classical, cuneiform, demotic, epistolary, erotographomanic, graphic, heroic, hieroglyphical, in black and white, in prose, in type, in writing, macaronic, melic, mock, onomastic, onymous, out of print, phat, printed, printless, prosaic, prosy, rimeless, runic, scribaceous, scribblative, scripturient, stylized, tabellarious, tete, uncial, under one's hand, unpoetical, unrecorded, unregistered, unrimed, unwritten, writing, written
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Learning.
Synonyms:
-nouns
learning; acquisition of knowledge, acquisition of skill [more]; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self- instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry., apprenticeship, prenticeship; pupilage, pupilarity; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation., docility (willingness); aptitude.
-verbs
learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning., acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote., read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves., study; be studious; consume the midnight oil, mind one's book., go to school, go to college, go to the university; serve an (or one's) apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed; be taught.
-adjectives
studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile (willing); apt, industrious [more].
-adverbs
at one's books; in statu pupillari (learner).
-phrases
"a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]; ancora imparo! "hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson]; "lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod" [Gay].
Antonyms: teaching
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Writing.
Category: 2. Conventional means; written language
Synonyms:
-nouns
writing; chirography, stelography, cerography; penmanship, craftmanship; quill driving; typewriting., writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae; these presents., stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink., letter; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari; script., shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy; secret writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography., copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist., calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand., cacography, griffonage, barbouillage; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble; pattes de mouche; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers., stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter., transcription (copy); inscription (record); superscription (indication); graphology., composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi; graphoidea, graphomania; phrenoia., writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press (author).
-verbs
write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down (record); sign (attest); enface., compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold., take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.
-adjectives
writing; written; in writing, in black and white; under one's hand., uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical.
-adverbs
currente calamo; pen in hand.
-phrases
audacter et sincere; le style est l'homme meme; "nature's noblest gift -- my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons [Horace]; "that mighty instrument of little men" [Byron]; "the pen became a
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