English word senses marked with topical category "Literature"
Parent categories: Culture, Entertainment, Writing, Society, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: A Song of Ice and Fire, Authors, Books, Charles Dickens, Classical studies, Comics, Fan fiction, Gulliver's Travels, Harry Potter, Horror, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Literary genres, Lovecraftian horror, Narratology, Periodicals, Poetry, Shahnameh, Sherlock Holmes, The Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games, The Wizard of Oz, Twilight (novel series)
Total 4081 word senses
- A to Z … Ahaz (51 senses)
- Ai … BHS (75 senses)
- BL … Baumian (41 senses)
- Beast … C.O.D. (66 senses)
- C/P … Cosmospeak (71 senses)
- Cr. … Dickney (57 senses)
- Dinah … ESV (47 senses)
- EU … Evangelist (51 senses)
- Eve … Glyconic (75 senses)
- GoF … HP (42 senses)
- HT … I volunteer as tribute (86 senses)
- IC … Jared (52 senses)
- Jas … Joe Sixpack (40 senses)
- Joe. … KamiDeku (60 senses)
- Kamsa … Lava (60 senses)
- Law … Manzonian (77 senses)
- Mar. … Metropolis (44 senses)
- Mic. … Mystrade (55 senses)
- NA … Octapla (57 senses)
- Og … Pestilence (61 senses)
- Pet. … Purple Dragon Book (58 senses)
- Q … SF/F/H (79 senses)
- SG … Scullyslash (38 senses)
- Sela … Simpsonwave (74 senses)
- Sin … Sumitra (71 senses)
- Sun … Thunderer (47 senses)
- Ti. … USAT (65 senses)
- UST … Völuspá in skamma (42 senses)
- W3 … Zerubbabel (63 senses)
- Ziam … analogue horror (55 senses)
- anceps … apological (58 senses)
- arc … bentsher (63 senses)
- beta … brevis in longo (74 senses)
- bridge … clavis (64 senses)
- clay … cookbook (52 senses)
- corona … dactylar (41 senses)
- daily … doggerel (75 senses)
- doha … enneasyllable (57 senses)
- ent … fandom bicycle (50 senses)
- fanfic … frumious (71 senses)
- fu … gynocriticism (65 senses)
- h/c … heroism (41 senses)
- het … iambic pentameter (58 senses)
- ib. … juxtology (55 senses)
- juz … logbook (70 senses)
- loins … meet cute (57 senses)
- meh … monthly (57 senses)
- mora … novum (61 senses)
- nuk … pastourelle (63 senses)
- pathos … podficcer (46 senses)
- poem … punk zine (71 senses)
- pup … resolution (47 senses)
- rest … seeker (71 senses)
- selah … sideshadowing (62 senses)
- sijo … spec evo (52 senses)
- spec. … supervillain (53 senses)
- sura … toilet book (61 senses)
- tome … vers de societe (65 senses)
- verse … Þrymskviða (79 senses)
- 'Tec (Proper name) Detective Comics (an American comic book series)
- -er (Suffix) Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually one syllable of the given name.)
- -nomicon (Suffix) Used to form nouns, referring to a book of knowledge on the specified topic.
- -verse (Suffix) Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.
- 1 Chronicles (Proper name) The first of the two Books of Chronicles and the thirteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
- 1 Corinthians (Proper name) The first book of Corinthians and the seventh book in the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Corinth attributed to Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes.
- 1 John (Proper name) The twenty-third book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle of John.
- 1 Kings (Proper name) The eleventh book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
- 1 Maccabees (Proper name) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
- 1 Peter (Proper name) The first epistle of Peter, the twenty-first book of the New Testament of the Bible.
- 1 Samuel (Proper name) The ninth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.
- 1 Thessalonians (Proper name) The thirteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle to the Thessalonians.
- 1 Timothy (Proper name) The fifteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle to Timothy.
- 10 points to Gryffindor (Phrase) Alternative form of ten points to Gryffindor
- 2 Chronicles (Proper name) The second of the two Books of Chronicles and the fourteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
- 2 Corinthians (Proper name) The second book of Corinthians and the eighth book in the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Corinth attributed to Paul the Apostle and Timothy.
- 2 Joh. (Proper name) Abbreviation of 2 John.
- 2 John (Proper name) The twenty-fourth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle of John.
- 2 Kings (Proper name) The twelfth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
- 2 Maccabees (Proper name) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
- 2 Peter (Proper name) The second epistle of Peter, the twenty-second book of the New Testament of the Bible.
- 2 Samuel (Proper name) The tenth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
- 2 Thessalonians (Proper name) The fourteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle to the Thessalonians.
- 2 Timothy (Proper name) The sixteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle to Timothy.
- 3 John (Proper name) The antepenultimate book of the New Testament of the Bible, the third epistle of John.
- 3 Kings (Proper name) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
- 4 Kings (Proper name) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
- 52verse (Proper name) The fictional universe of DC Comics after the conclusion of Infinite Crisis, as shown in the 52 comic book series.
- ◌́ (Character) Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun rébel as opposed to verb rebél; áll trádes as a spondee rather than iamb.
- ◌̄ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.
- ◌̆ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨˘⟩.
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