Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of comp. lit. (“comparative literature”).
As for Elle herself, a couple of passing references to an office where she grades papers constitute the whole of her nonfamily working life as an N.Y.U. comp lit professor.
2021 July 4, Caitlin Macy, “Summer After Summer, a Clan Returns to Cape Cod”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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comp lit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comp%20lit
“comp lit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comp%20lit. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “comp lit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comp%20lit.
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