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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To write; compose.
  2. v. To set down in writing.
  3. v. Obsolete To dictate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put into verbal form; compose; write.
  2. To conceive the form of; arrange for utterance or writing: only in the place cited.
  3. In the following passage, to invite: perhaps a misprint.
  4. To compose; write.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe
  2. v. transitive To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose
  3. n. mineralogy An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
  2. v. obsolete To invite or ask.
  3. v. obsolete To indict; to accuse; to censure.
  4. v. To compose; to write, as a poem.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. produce a literary work

Etymologies

  1. From Old French and Anglo-Norman enditer, from Latin in- +‎ dictare (“to declare”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English enditen, from Old French enditer, from Vulgar Latin *indictāre : Latin in-, toward; see in-2 + Latin dictāre, to compose, to say habitually, frequentative of dīcere, to say; see deik- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. compose
  1. write
  1. dictate
  1. prompt
  1. indict
  1. accuse
  1. censure

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. create verbally

hyponyms (32)

Words that are more specific

  1. poetise
  2. paragraph
  3. write about
  4. outline
  5. toss off
  6. draw
  1. write off
  2. author
  3. rewrite
  4. write out
  5. write copy
  6. write up
  1. adopt
  2. write on
  3. profile
  4. dramatise
  5. verse
  6. versify
  1. fling off
  2. dramatize
  3. write of
  4. script
  5. scratch off
  6. annotate
  1. reference
  2. cite
  3. draft
  4. lyric
  5. footnote
  6. dash off
  1. poetize
  2. knock off

same context (2)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. o'erflow
  1. them

rhymes (82)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bright
  2. Dwight
  3. Knight
  4. Night
  5. White
  6. Wight
  7. Wright
  8. alight
  9. allright
  10. alright
  11. beit
  12. benight
  13. bight
  14. bite
  15. blight
  16. bright
  1. brite
  2. byte
  3. cite
  4. contrite
  5. delight
  6. despite
  7. disinvite
  8. dunite
  9. excite
  10. fight
  11. flight
  12. forthright
  13. fright
  14. height
  15. heit
  16. hight
  1. ignite
  2. incite
  3. indict
  4. invite
  5. kite
  6. knight
  7. kyte
  8. light
  9. lite
  10. might
  11. mite
  12. night
  13. nite
  14. nonwhite
  15. onsite
  16. outright
  1. overexcite
  2. overnight
  3. overwrite
  4. plight
  5. polite
  6. quite
  7. recite
  8. reignite
  9. reinvite
  10. reit
  11. reunite
  12. rewrite
  13. right
  14. rite
  15. sight
  16. site
  1. sleight
  2. slight
  3. spight
  4. spite
  5. sprite
  6. streit
  7. tight
  8. tonight
  9. tonite
  10. trite
  11. twite
  12. upright
  13. uptight
  14. white
  15. whyte
  16. wight
  1. wright
  2. write

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. endite
  1. indict
  1. pen

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  • writer723 indite. what an inventive word meaning to write. a new word to my vocabulary. when i was a child my favorite book to read was the dictionary. i found it an adventure in learning. the words that opened into other words which created and gave meaning to my life. they told an intellectual as well as an emotional story. Apr 19, 2011

  • hernesheir "To all you ladies now at land,
    We men, at sea, indite."
    Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706), To All You Ladies Now at Land. Sep 20, 2009

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