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WRITTEN WORD
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)