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The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.
Leland Ryken

Meaning of "nonliterary" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NONLITERARY

nonliterary  [nɒnˈlɪtərərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NONLITERARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nonliterary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NONLITERARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nonliterary in the English dictionary

The definition of nonliterary in the dictionary is not of, relating to, concerned with, or characteristic of literature or scholarly writing.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NONLITERARY


cinerary
ˈsɪnərərɪ
contemporary
kənˈtɛmprərɪ
cotemporary
kəʊˈtɛmpərərɪ
cursorary
ˈkɜːsərərɪ
dishonorary
dɪsˈɒnərərɪ
extemporary
ɪkˈstɛmpərərɪ
funerary
ˈfjuːnərərɪ
honorary
ˈɒnərərɪ
itinerary
aɪˈtɪnərərɪ
literary
ˈlɪtərərɪ
noncontemporary
ˌnɒnkənˈtɛmpərərɪ
numerary
ˈnjuːmərərɪ
preliterary
priːˈlɪtərərɪ
stercorary
ˈstɜːkərərɪ
subliterary
sʌbˈlɪtərərɪ
supernumerary
ˌsuːpəˈnjuːmərərɪ
temporary
ˈtɛmpərərɪ
uncontemporary
ˌʌnkənˈtempərərɪ
unliterary
ʌnˈlɪtərərɪ
vulnerary
ˈvʌlnərərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NONLITERARY

nonlegume
nonleguminous
nonlethal
nonlevel
nonlexical
nonliable
nonlibrary
nonlife
nonlinear
nonlinearity
nonlinguistic
nonliquid
nonliteral
nonliterate
nonliving
nonlocal
nonlogical
nonloving
nonloyal
nonluminous

WORDS THAT END LIKE NONLITERARY

arbitrary
British Library
circulating library
contrary
dynamic link library
extraliterary
film library
horary
interlibrary
lending library
mobile library
on the contrary
picture library
public library
reference library
school library
siserary
software library
Tipperary
video library

Synonyms and antonyms of nonliterary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nonliterary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NONLITERARY

Find out the translation of nonliterary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nonliterary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nonliterary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非文学
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

no literaria
570 millions of speakers

English

nonliterary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nonliterary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nonliterary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нелитературный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

não literária
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nonliterary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

non littéraire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nonliterary
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nichtliterarischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nonliterary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nonliterary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nonliterary
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nonliterary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nonliterary
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नॉन लिट्टेरीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yazın dışı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

non letterario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nonliterary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нелітературний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neliterar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nonliterary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nonliterary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nonliterary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nonliterary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nonliterary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NONLITERARY»

The term «nonliterary» is used very little and occupies the 158.216 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NONLITERARY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nonliterary

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QUOTES WITH «NONLITERARY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nonliterary.
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Leland Ryken
The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONLITERARY»

Discover the use of nonliterary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nonliterary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Integrated Curriculum for Secondary Education English - ...
Can read nonliterary texts identify purpose and audience. responding to a range of texts. setting. effect. Can read nonliterary texts and comment on features: layout, purpose, Can read a range of nonliterary texts and comment on features: can ...
Claire Manners, Rachel Kelly, Teresa Reilly, 2012
2
Constructing the Self
From here on out, though, I shall be discussing only properties of nonliterary, nonfictional narratives, since those are the sorts of stories that interest us here, just in case their “points” do in fact differ from the points of more traditional fictional ...
Valerie Gray Hardcastle, 2008
3
House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the ...
Often unacknowledged in publishing studies is the importance of nonliterary textual production to company profitability: for every literary best-seller, there are a half-dozen nonliterary texts sustaining a firm's lists. Blackwood's is no exception to ...
David Finkelstein, 2010
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Aspects of Literary Comprehension: A Cognitive Approach
Consider the following four possible situations: (1) Readers reading under LCCS may encounter literary text features, such as meter or sentences with high expressive value. (2) Readers reading under LCCS may encounter nonliterary text ...
Rolf A. Zwaan, 1993
5
Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture
Popular culture is rife with nonliterary allusion, but it is important to notice that their nonliterary status may derive from either of two situations. On the one hand, the allusion may be musical or visual or otherwise nonverbal. If you have seen the ...
William Irwin, Jorge J. E. Gracia, 2007
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Is There an Author in This Text?: Discovering the Otherness ...
Esler's use of Hans-Georg Gadamer's work, in understanding “play” and art, to suggest that the removal from reality in novels, as literary works, distinguish them from nonliterary works—and that this distinction is not related to authorial intent—  ...
Peter A. Sutcliffe, 2013
7
Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories
His source materials are different from mine, insofar as he does not discuss the nonliterary texts about women written by May Fourth male intellectuals. The messages in their nonliterary texts, such as the debates on the woman problem and ...
Zheng Wang, 1999
8
Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
level a distinction to be drawn between the literary and the nonliterary, and to be drawn (at least in part) along the lines we have just indicated, the boundaries between the literary and the nonliterary are blurred. Most texts have both a literary ...
Daphne Patai, Wilfrido Howard Corral, 2013
9
Who Killed Shakespeare: What's Happened to English Since the ...
Veeser's third statement, “that literary and nonliterary texts circulate inseparably,” will surprise no one who has ever been in a bookstore or a library. Even that whipping boy of the new historicist Shakespeareans, E. M. W. Tillyard, sought in The ...
Patrick Brantlinger, 2013
10
Linguistics Encyclopedia
There is aconsequent major traditional division between literary and nonliterary stylistics, although, as Halliday (1983:viii) amongothers points out, there isno feature foundina literarytextwhichisnot also found in nonliterary texts. The distinction ...
Kirsten Malmkjaer, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONLITERARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nonliterary is used in the context of the following news items.
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7 of the Most Unique Museums in the World
However, should you take your nonliterary major friends along to the museum of his namesake in the Czech Republic, some explaining might ... «TravelPulse, Jul 15»
2
Reading With Imagination
There is such a glut of blogs, emails, texts and tweets that the distinction between literary works and nonliterary works has become badly ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
3
Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Author of 'The Sympathizer'
How did you combine the literary style and the nonliterary subject matter? The seed of this was planted in me because when I was reading all ... «Hyphen Magazine, Apr 15»
4
How to give your memoir real bite
“The fundamental difference between them is that a confession, in the word's historical, nonliterary sense, is addressed to some entity — God, ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
5
One Unsparing Eye
Not only would Leavis “never read them,” but, since they included such nonliterary tomes as Aquinas's Summa Theologica and Hegel's ... «The Weekly Standard, Mar 15»
6
Zuckerberg goes full Oprah, starts book club
Will there be a repeat, as happened in Oprah's time, of an author railing against his work being chosen by a nonliterary mortal -- even worse ... «CNET, Jan 15»
7
PW's Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2014
It's one of those extremely rare cases where the publisher's nonliterary rationale indicates to the reader a great literary accomplishment.”. «Publishers Weekly, Dec 14»
8
The Son Also Writes It: Atticus Lish's Roundabout Path to Literary …
Then Lish and his wife moved to China before returning to New York for a job at a translation firm, working on decidedly nonliterary texts. «New York Observer, Nov 14»
9
As a Writer, What Influences You Other Than Books?
My greatest nonliterary influence is John the Baptist. What an excellent line: How I wish it were true. John in his wild-beast jockstrap, with his ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
10
The Great Emancipator, Bent Over His Commas
But far more often—and in many of the works selected for this edition—we find Lincoln taking up decidedly nonliterary topics: attacking a plan to ... «Wall Street Journal, Oct 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Nonliterary [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nonliterary>. Apr 2024 ».
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