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Meaning of साहित्य in English

  • Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
  • The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
  • The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
  • The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
  • Alt. of Ingrediency
  • Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
  • Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
  • Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
  • Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
  • Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
  • Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
  • The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
  • To form from matter; to materialize.

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