/ English Dictionary

LETTERING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

Synonyms:

inscription; lettering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lettering" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lettering"):

superscription (an inscription written above something else)

epigraph (an engraved inscription)

epitaph (an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there)

 II. (verb) 

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-ing form of the verb letter

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