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noun
Ink or an inklike substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Any particularly black liquid substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, rare, uncountable
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History
Inherited from Middle English atrament, from Latin ātrāmentum, from ātrāre (“to blacken”), from āter (“black”). First attested in the 14th century.
