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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