Usually means: Artistic expression through written words.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word literary:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. literary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. literary: Merriam-Webster
  3. literary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. literary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. literary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. literary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Literary, literary: Wordnik
  8. literary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. literary: Wiktionary
  10. literary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. literary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. literary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Literary, literary: Dictionary.com
  14. literary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Literary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. literary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. literary: Rhymezone
  18. literary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. literary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. literary: FreeDictionary.org
  21. literary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. literary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. literary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. literary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  25. Literary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. literary: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See literarily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to literature.
adjective:  Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
adjective:  Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
adjective:  Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
adjective:  Bookish.

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