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literary | garreteer |

As an adjective literary

is relating to literature.

As a noun garreteer is

one who lives in a garret.

literary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to literature.
  • literary''' fame; a '''literary''' history; '''literary conversation
  • * Johnson
  • He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
  • Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
  • a literary man
  • * Mason
  • in the literary as well as fashionable world
  • Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
  • Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
  • Bookish.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * literary criticism * literary device * literary form * literary genre * literary technique * literary theory

    Anagrams

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    garreteer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives in a garret.
  • (derogatory) A poor author; a literary hack.
  • (Macaulay)
    (Webster 1913)