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WRITTEN WORD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The written form of a word

Example:

a craftsman of the written word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("written word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

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

bigram (a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system)

trigram (a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system)

tetragram (a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system)

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