English word senses marked with topical category "Literature"

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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, Dracula, 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 4633 word senses

• A to Z … Ahaz (54 senses)
• Ai … Aristophanic (59 senses)
• Ark … Batnipples (73 senses)
• Bats … Brittana (65 senses)
• BroTP … Cephas (60 senses)
• ChD … DARE (59 senses)
• DC … Dickney (56 senses)
• Dinah … Elephant (71 senses)
• Eli … Ferdowsi (68 senses)
• Fig … Glyconic (59 senses)
• GoF … Helaemond (80 senses)
• Hell … I-novel (62 senses)
• IC … Jared (57 senses)
• Jas … Joe. (44 senses)
• Joel … Kiliel (76 senses)
• Kim … Lava (57 senses)
• Law … Manzonian (83 senses)
• Mar. … Metropolis (47 senses)
• Mic. … Mystrade (59 senses)
• NA … Octapla (61 senses)
• Og … Pestilence (66 senses)
• Pet. … Purple Dragon Book (65 senses)
• Q … Roxburgh binding (74 senses)
• Rth. … Scullyslash (52 senses)
• Sela … Simpsonwave (81 senses)
• Sin … Spillow (52 senses)
• Spirk … TBDL (56 senses)
• TBR … Tolkieny (78 senses)
• Tom … Urmila (46 senses)
• Uz … Xfic (77 senses)
• Y/N … alamoth (60 senses)
• alba … anti-Stratfordian (45 senses)
• anti-Tom … bandslash (88 senses)
• bara … biopunk (53 senses)
• bitca … cancrine (73 senses)
• canon … clavis (56 senses)
• clay … coursebook (66 senses)
• cover … dialogue tag (68 senses)
• diamb … doggerel (50 senses)
• doha … enneasyllable (71 senses)
• ent … fabliau (41 senses)
• fabula … flyleaf (64 senses)
• fmz … go in unto (91 senses)
• goel … have a cow (53 senses)
• heat … historiographic metafiction (46 senses)
• hizb … irmologion (78 senses)
• isekai … library (71 senses)
• lien … low fantasy (44 senses)
• lycan … metzora (74 senses)
• mia … muggle (46 senses)
• mulo … novum (68 senses)
• nuk … pastourelle (66 senses)
• pathos … pourquoi story (76 senses)
• power … punk zine (52 senses)
• pup … retcon (53 senses)
• retem … seeker (76 senses)
• selah … sideshadowing (67 senses)
• sijo … spec script (57 senses)
• spec. … supervillain (61 senses)
• sura … tomato surprise (75 senses)
• tome … valar morghulis (65 senses)
• vamp … vowel rhyme (56 senses)
• waka … Þrymskviða (81 senses)
• 'Tec (Proper name) Detective Comics (an American comic book series)
• -cula (Suffix) Denoting things associated with, or compared to, Dracula: Count Chocula, Bunnicula etc.
• -er (Suffix) Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually one syllable of the given name.)
• -id (Suffix) Forming the names of epic poems.
• -mance (Suffix) A suffix attached to a noun or character's name to create a word for an in-game romance subplot or mechanic.
• -mancer (Suffix) A suffix attached to a video game character's name to create a word for a player who romances that character in the game.
• -nomicon (Suffix) Used to form nouns, referring to a book of knowledge on the specified topic.
• -pody (Suffix) A unit or line consisting of a specified number of metrical feet
• -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
• 1H4 (Proper name) Initialism of Henry IV, Part 1, by William Shakespeare.
• 1H6 (Proper name) Initialism of Henry VI, Part 1, by William Shakespeare.
• 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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