literature | the profession or art of a writer, her place in literature is secure |
dialect geography linguistic geography | the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features |
literature lit | the humanistic study of a body of literature, he took a course in Russian lit |
comparative literature | study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation) |
line of poetry line of verse | a single line of words in a poem |
literature | creative writing of recognized artistic value |
literature | published writings in a particular style on a particular subject, the technical literature, one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature |
dialect atlas linguistic atlas | an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features |
sapiential book wisdom book wisdom literature | any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom |
Talmudic literature | (Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings |
Sanskrit literature | Hindu literature written in Sanskrit |
Vedic literature Veda | (from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit, traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads |
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System MEDLARS | relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature |
Bachelor of Literature BLitt | a bachelor's degree in literature |
Master of Literature MLitt | a master's degree in literature |
Mandarin Mandarin Chinese Mandarin dialect Beijing dialect | the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China |
Wu Wu dialect Shanghai dialect | a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta |
Yue Yue dialect Cantonese Cantonese dialect | the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China |
Min Min dialect Fukien Fukkianese Hokkianese Amoy Taiwanese | any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province |
Hakka Hakka dialect | a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka |
Gheg Gheg dialect | the dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia |
Tosk Tosk dialect | the dialect of Albanian spoken in southern Albania and in areas of Greece and Italy |
Flemish Flemish dialect | one of two official languages of Belgium, closely related to Dutch |
Turfan East Tocharian Turfan dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
Kuchean West Tocharian Kuchean dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
Attic Ionic Ionic dialect Classical Greek | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia |
Aeolic Aeolic dialect Eolic | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis |
Arcadic Arcadic dialect | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians |
Doric Doric dialect | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris |
poetry poesy verse r | literature in metrical form |
heroic poetry epic poetry | poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero |
poetry | any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling |
dialect idiom accent | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people, the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English, he has a strong German accent, it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy |
eye dialect | the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker |