literature

  1. Noun.  The body of all written works.
  2. Noun.  The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group(,) or culture.
  3. Noun.  All the papers, treatises(,) etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
  4. Noun.  Written fiction of a high standard.

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