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littéraire

literary

adjective lee-teh-RAIR Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Origin: Latin litterarius

Usage Note

Littéraire describes anything relating to literature: un prix littéraire ('a literary prize'), une carrière littéraire ('a literary career'). In French education, the baccalauréat littéraire (now bac général) was the humanities-track diploma. The noun littérature and the agent noun littérateur share the same root.

Examples

"Elle a un goût littéraire très développé."

Natural Translation

She has a very developed literary taste.

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