Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

canlit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: can-lit
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Abbreviation of Canadian literature; the body of written work considered to represent Canadian culture.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

""Next semester is my CanLit pre-req. I put up a good fight, too, but I couldn't escape it—or him. So I'm just going to buy up his whole damn catalogue and call it a day.""
"Even though we were writing our own stories, and many of us went on to be published, we did not feel that we were part of CanLit. We were Canadian, sure, but we wanted to write about the contemporary, wired world and we were just as interested in Berlin and New York as we were in the Riel Rebellion, and that made us anti-CanLit."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does canlit mean?: Abbreviation of Canadian literature; the body of written work considered to represent Canadian culture.

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