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typography

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /taɪˈpɒɡɹəfi/
  • General-American: /taɪˈpɑɡɹəfi/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒɡɹəfi
  • CMU ARPABET: T AH0 P AA1 G R AH0 F IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The practice or process of printing with type.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The appearance and style of typeset matter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the craft of composing type and printing from it

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: trade, craft

5

noun

Meaning 5

art and technique of printing with movable type

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: composition

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: printing, printing process

History

Etymology

From French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia from Ancient Greek τυπογράφος (tupográphos, “certified copy”) + -ίᾱ (-íā). By surface analysis, type + -o- + -graphy.

Across languages

Translations

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: tipografia — art and technique
  • Arabic: طِبَاعَة (ṭibāʕa) — art and technique
  • Arabic: طِبَاعَة الْحَرْفِ — art and technique
  • Armenian: տպագրություն (tpagrutʻyun) — art and technique
  • Basque: tipografia — art and technique
  • Belarusian: тыпаграфіка (typahrafika) — art and technique
  • Bulgarian: типография (tipografija) — art and technique
  • Catalan: tipografia — art and technique
  • Chinese Mandarin: 字體排印學 /字体排印学 (zìtǐpáiyìnxué) — art and technique
  • Czech: typografie — art and technique
  • Danish: typografi — art and technique
  • Dutch: typografie — art and technique
  • Esperanto: tipografio — art and technique
  • Estonian: tüpograafia — art and technique
  • Finnish: typografia — art and technique
  • French: typographie — art and technique
  • Galician: tipografía — art and technique
  • Georgian: ტიპოგრაფია (ṭiṗograpia) — art and technique
  • German: Typographie — art and technique
  • Greek: τυπογραφία (typografía) — art and technique
  • Hebrew: טיפוגרפיה (tipográfia) — art and technique
  • Hebrew: טיפוגרפיקה — art and technique
  • Hindi: अक्षर कला (akṣar kalā) — art and technique
  • Hungarian: tipográfia — art and technique
  • Icelandic: leturfræði — art and technique
  • Icelandic: týpógrafía — art and technique
  • Indonesian: tipografi — art and technique
  • Irish: clóghrafaíocht — art and technique
  • Italian: tipografia — art and technique
  • Japanese: タイポグラフィ (taipogurafi) — art and technique
  • Japanese: タイポグラフィー (taipogurafī) — art and technique
  • Korean: 타이포그래피 (taipogeuraepi) — art and technique
  • Korean: 타이포그라피 (taipogeurapi) — art and technique
  • Latvian: tipogrāfija — art and technique
  • Lithuanian: tipografija — art and technique
  • Macedonian: типографија (tipografija) — art and technique
  • Malay: tipografi — art and technique
  • Norwegian Bokmål: typografi — art and technique
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: typografi — art and technique
  • Persian: تایپوگرافی (tipografî) — art and technique
  • Polish: typografia — art and technique
  • Portuguese: tipografia — art and technique
  • Romanian: tipografie — art and technique
  • Romanian: tipar — art and technique
  • Russian: книгопеча́тание (knigopečátanije) — art and technique
  • Russian: типогра́фика (tipográfika) — art and technique
  • Scottish Gaelic: clò-ghrafachd — art and technique
  • Serbo-Croatian: типогра̀фија — art and technique
  • Serbo-Croatian: tipogràfija — art and technique
  • Slovak: typografia — art and technique
  • Slovene: tipografija — art and technique
  • Spanish: tipografía — art and technique
  • Swedish: typografi — art and technique
  • Tagalog: palalimbitan — art and technique
  • Thai: การพิมพ์ (gaan-pim) — art and technique
  • Turkish: tipografi — art and technique
  • Ottoman Turkish: باصمه (basma) — art and technique
  • Ukrainian: типографія (typohrafija) — art and technique
  • Vietnamese: thuật in máy — art and technique
  • Yiddish: טיפּאָגראַפֿיע (tipografye) — art and technique
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