English

Etymology
From L. literatura or litteratura.

Pronunciation
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Noun
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1. The body of all written works.
2. The collected stories of a nation, people group or culture.

Translations
rfc-trans|Not sure those should be listed as separate senses, though.

Albanian: literaturë
Arabic: ا�أدب
Aragonese: literatura
Asturian: lliteratura
Azerbaijani: �d�biyyat
Basque: literatura
Bengali: সাহিত�য
Bosnian: književnost
Bulgarian: ли�е�а���а (literatura)
Chinese: �学 (wén xué)
Croatian: književnost
Czech: literatura
Danish: litteratur
Dutch: literatuur
Esperanto: literaturo
Estonian: literatuur
Finnish: kirjallisuus
French: littérature
Frisian: literatuer
Galician: literatura
Georgian: ���������� (literatura)
German: Literatur
Greek: λογο�ε�νία (logotechnía)
Hebrew: ספר�ת
Hindi: साहित�य
Hungarian: irodalom
Ido: literaturo
Indonesian: kesusasteraan
Interlingua: litteratura
Irish Gaelic: litríocht
Italian: letteratura
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Japanese: �学 (����) (bungaku), �� (����) (bunken)
Javanese: sastra
Korean: 문� (munhak)
Kurdish: KUchar|ئاداب
Latin: litterae
Latvian: literatūra
Limburgish: literatuur
Lithuanian: literatūra
Low Saxon: Literatur
Luxembourgish: Literatur
Macedonian: ли�е�а���а (literatura)
Malayalam: സാഹിത�യ�
Maltese: letteratura
Nepali: साहित�य
Norwegian: litteratur
Novial: literature
Occitan: literatura
Persian: ادب�ات
Polish: literatura
Portuguese: literatura
Romanian: literatur�
Russian: ли�е�а���а (literatura)
Scots: leiteratur
Serbian: к�ижевно�� (književnost)
Sicilian: littiratura
Slovak: literatúra
Slovene: literatura
Spanish: literatura
Swedish: litteratur
Thai: วรร��รรม
Turkish: lıteratür
Ukrainian: л��е�а���а (literatura)
Uyghur: edebiyat
Vietnamese: v�n chương
Welsh: llên
Yiddish: literatur

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