Lit. Hum.n.
Etymology: Shortened < literae humaniores n.
society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > humanities
1939 L. MacNeice xii. 49 If it were not for Lit. Hum. I might be climbing A ladder with a hod.
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