literature

literature

意味(日本語)

文学

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

意味(英語)

  • (noun) The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
  • (noun) 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).
  • (noun) The art or occupation of a literary writer.
  • (noun) The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature.
  • (noun) Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject.

例文

  • Both men were serious about literature, but they differed on how much the formal detective story, as perfected during the Golden Age between the World Wars, could be taken seriously _as _literature.

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literal

literal

文字どおりの

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

literally

literally

字義どおりに

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

【広告】

literary

literary

文学(的)の

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

literate

literate

読み書きのできるひと

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

illiterate

illiterate

文盲の ◇il(=not)

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

obliterate

obliterate

抹殺する ◇ob(=off) = 「文字を消す」から

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

obliteration

obliteration

抹殺、忘却

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

letter

letter

文字、手紙

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

lettering

lettering

レタリング(いろいろな書体の文字をかくこと)

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

man of letters

man of letters

文学者、文人

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

【広告】

epistle

epistle

手紙 ◇Gk.Epistle to the Romans(=ローマ人への書)

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)

epistolary

epistolary

書簡の

語源

  • liter- : L.littera = letter(文字)