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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌbɛlˈlɛtɹ(ə)/
Etymology: Borrowed from French belles-lettres (“fine writing”), a parallel construction with the beaux arts (“fine arts”). Littré considered the belles-lettres to embrace grammar, rhetoric, and poetry. Sense embracing all of the humanities under the influence of Latin literae humaniores. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|belles-lettres||fine writing}} French belles-lettres (“fine writing”), {{cog|la|literae humaniores}} Latin literae humaniores Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} belles-lettres (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete) The humanities. Tags: obsolete, uncountable
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  2. (archaic) Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties. Tags: archaic, uncountable Categories (topical): Literature Synonyms: polite literature Translations (light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties): أَدَب (ʔadab) [masculine] (Arabic), 純文學 (Chinese Mandarin), 纯文学 (chúnwénxué) (Chinese Mandarin), 美文 (měiwén) (Chinese Mandarin), 詩禮 (Chinese Mandarin), 诗礼 (shīlǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), beletrie [feminine] (Czech), bellettrie [feminine] (Dutch), beletro (Esperanto), beletristiko (Esperanto), ilukirjandus (Estonian), belletristika (Estonian), kaunokirjallisuus (Finnish), belles-lettres [feminine, plural] (French), ბელეტრისტიკა (beleṭrisṭiḳa) (Georgian), Belles Lettres [feminine, plural] (German), schöne Literatur [feminine] (German), Belletristik [feminine] (German), szépirodalom (Hungarian), léann liteartha [masculine] (Irish), 純文学 (junbungaku) (alt: じゅんぶんがく) (Japanese), 순문학 (sunmunhak) (Korean), beletrystyka [feminine] (Polish), literatura piękna [feminine] (Polish), belas-letras [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), beletristică [feminine] (Romanian), худо́жественная литерату́ра (xudóžestvennaja literatúra) [feminine] (Russian), беллетри́стика (belletrístika) [feminine] (Russian), skönlitteratur [common-gender] (Swedish), belletristik [common-gender] (Swedish), худо́жня літерату́ра (xudóžnja literatúra) [feminine] (Ukrainian), белетри́стика (beletrýstyka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), кра́сне письме́нство (krásne pysʹménstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), văn chương (Vietnamese)
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  3. (archaic) Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics. Tags: archaic, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: belles lettres, belles-letters, belle-lettre Derived forms: belle-lettrist Related terms: belletrist, belletristic

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French belles-lettres (“fine writing”), a parallel construction with the beaux arts (“fine arts”). Littré considered the belles-lettres to embrace grammar, rhetoric, and poetry. Sense embracing all of the humanities under the influence of Latin literae humaniores.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "belles-lettres (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "belletrist"
    },
    {
      "word": "belletristic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The humanities."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humanities",
          "humanities"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The humanities."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1854, Henry Reed, Lectures on English Literature, 1878 edition, page 34:",
          "text": "That vapid, half naturalized term ‘belles-lettres,’ which has had some currency as a substitute for the term ‘literature.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "composition",
          "composition"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "aesthetic",
          "aesthetic"
        ],
        [
          "properties",
          "properties"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "polite literature"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Literary",
          "literary"
        ],
        [
          "studies",
          "studies"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "literary",
          "literary"
        ],
        [
          "aesthetics",
          "aesthetics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌbɛlˈlɛtɹ(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "belles lettres"
    },
    {
      "word": "belles-letters"
    },
    {
      "word": "belle-lettre"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔadab",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "أَدَب"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "純文學"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chúnwénxué",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "纯文学"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "měiwén",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "美文"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "詩禮"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shīlǐ",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "诗礼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "beletrie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bellettrie"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "beletro"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "beletristiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "ilukirjandus"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "belletristika"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "kaunokirjallisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "belles-lettres"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "beleṭrisṭiḳa",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "ბელეტრისტიკა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Belles Lettres"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "schöne Literatur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Belletristik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "szépirodalom"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "léann liteartha"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じゅんぶんがく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "junbungaku",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "純文学"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sunmunhak",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "순문학"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "beletrystyka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "literatura piękna"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "belas-letras"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "beletristică"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xudóžestvennaja literatúra",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "худо́жественная литерату́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "belletrístika",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "беллетри́стика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skönlitteratur"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "belletristik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xudóžnja literatúra",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "худо́жня літерату́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "beletrýstyka",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "белетри́стика"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "krásne pysʹménstvo",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "кра́сне письме́нство"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "light literary compositions valued for their aesthetic properties",
      "word": "văn chương"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Littré",
    "belles-lettres"
  ],
  "word": "belles-lettres"
}

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