English noun: writing |
| 1. | writing (act) the act of creating written works |
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| Samples | Writing was a form of therapy for him.
It was a matter of disputed authorship.
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| Synonyms | authorship, composition, penning |
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| Broader (hypernym) | verbal creation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | adoxography, drafting, dramatisation, dramatization, fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization, historiography, lexicography, metrification, novelisation, novelization, redaction, versification |
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| Domain category members | adopt, annotate, author, cite, co-author, compose, dash off, draft, dramatise, dramatize, fling off, footnote, ghost, ghostwrite, indite, knock off, outline, paragraph, pen, profile, reference, rewrite, scratch off, script, toss off, write, write about, write copy, write of, write on, write out, write up |
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| 2. | writing (communication) the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) |
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| Samples | The writing in her novels is excellent.
That editorial was a fine piece of writing.
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| Synonyms | piece of writing, written material |
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| Broader (hypernym) | black and white, written communication, written language |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | adaptation, autograph, bowdlerisation, bowdlerization, criticism, cryptogram, cryptograph, diary, dithyramb, document, dramatic composition, dramatic work, editing, essay, inscription, journal, lettering, literary composition, literary criticism, literary work, literature, literature, manuscript, matter, ms, papers, paragraph, plagiarism, redaction, religious text, religious writing, rescript, revision, rewrite, sacred text, sacred writing, screed, secret writing, section, subdivision, title, transcript, treatise, version, written document |
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| Instance hyponym | Ayurveda |
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| Part holonym | epilog, epilogue |
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| 3. | writing (communication) (usually plural) the collected work of an author |
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| Samples | The idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings.
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| Broader (hypernym) | black and white, body of work, oeuvre, work, written communication, written language |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | patristics, patrology |
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| Domain usage | plural, plural form |
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| 4. | writing (communication) letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language |
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| Samples | He turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show.
The doctor's writing was illegible.
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| Broader (hypernym) | black and white, written communication, written language |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | capitalisation, capitalization, coding system, hand, handwriting, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, notation, notational system, orthography, printing, printing, printing process, script, skywriting, typewriting, typing, writing system |
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| 5. | writing (act) the activity of putting something in written form |
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| Samples | She did the thinking while he did the writing.
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| Synonyms | committal to writing |
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| Broader (hypernym) | activity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | coding, cryptography, handwriting, inscription, notation, secret writing, steganography |
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