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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Written text, especially when printed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Designed text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The inking of text onto comic pages during production.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: comics, literature, media, publishing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
present participle and gerund of letter
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: inscription
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writing, written material, piece of writing
Narrower terms: superscription, epigraph, epitaph
History
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
