| Literature | |
| 1. n. (alt-form, literature), especially when defined as a school subject. | |
| 2. n. The body of all written works. | |
| 3. n. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture. | |
| 4. n. All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject. | |
| 5. n. Written fiction of a high standard. | |
| However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Ada | |
