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WordNet 3.0

  1. n. communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)

Examples

  • “Aside from giving no proof that he knows the spoken or written language of that market place, Geertz affixes twenty-eight pages of double-columned footnotes in extremely fine print as bibliographical and critical support for his description of a Moroccan souk.”

    Orientalism: An Exchange

  • “Tarak paused, raised his wrist-lamp, and illuminated a wall etched and painted in colorful pictographs, the earliest written language of the Nasat.”

    Simon & Schuster: Breakdowns

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hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. communication

hyponyms (12)

Words that are more specific

  1. reading material
  2. reading
  1. correspondence
  2. prescription
  1. writing
  2. code
  1. codification
  2. written material
  1. print
  2. piece of writing
  1. written text
  2. transcription

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. writing
  2. notation
  3. h
  4. Gilgamesh
  5. abyssal
  6. translation
  7. version
  8. interlingual rendition
  9. rendering
  10. compiler
  11. target language
  12. Serbo-Croat
  13. Serbo-Croatian
  14. pahlavi
  15. Sajnani
  16. Hindi
  17. assembler
  18. Farsi
  1. informal
  2. Urdu
  3. orthography
  4. alphabet
  5. source code
  6. natural language
  7. read
  8. source program
  9. tongue
  10. Mahratti
  11. Marathi
  12. object language
  13. usage
  14. compiling program
  15. prolog
  16. style
  17. Zend
  18. idiom
  1. prose
  2. Turkish
  3. inveigh
  4. ionic dialect
  5. eloquence
  6. letter
  7. chirology
  8. monoglot
  9. saxonic
  10. Wikisource
  11. alphabetism
  12. ampullosity
  13. armeno-turkish
  14. kawi
  15. nonliterate
  16. syllabary
  17. XML
  18. translator
  1. Japanese
  2. agreement
  3. writing system
  4. aphasia
  5. barbarous
  6. preliterate
  7. readability
  8. school dictionary
  9. words
  10. unilingual
  11. poem
  12. literature
  13. learner's dictionary
  14. Modern Greek
  15. New Greek
  16. transcriber
  17. Armenian
  18. armenian alphabet
  1. Avestan
  2. Babylonian
  3. compile
  4. Coptic
  5. Egyptian
  6. formal
  7. parody
  8. realty
  9. rune
  10. shah nameh
  11. Yiddish
  12. achinese
  13. classifier
  14. extempore
  15. greco-turkish
  16. hieroglyphic
  17. Romaic
  18. Sanskrit
  1. statement
  2. octoglot
  3. t

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