drawing

A2 Topic:Art & Music

US /ˈdɹɑ.ɪŋ/ UK /ˈdɹɔː.ɪŋ/ See IPA manual

Freq #3057

Meanings

1

noun
A picture made with a pen, pencil, or crayon.

She pinned her daughter's drawing to the fridge.
2

noun
The art or activity of making pictures with lines.

He is very good at drawing and painting.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

2 noun · the art or activity of... sketching

Word family

Forms drawings

Derived forms droodleindrawingmicrodrawingsubdrawingtoothdrawingunderdrawing

Related forms draftdrafterdraftsman drawerdrawnworksketch

Etymology

From Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic *dragandz (“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw + -ing.

drauinge Middle English dragende Old English *dragandz Proto-Germanic *draganą Proto-Germanic

View etymology graph ->

External links

# drawing

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈdɹɑ.ɪŋ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈdɹɔː.ɪŋ/
**Frequency rank:** 3057

## Meanings
1. A picture made with a pen, pencil, or crayon.
2. The art or activity of making pictures with lines.

## Examples
- She pinned her daughter's drawing to the fridge.
- He is very good at drawing and painting.

## Derived Forms
- droodle
- indrawing
- microdrawing
- subdrawing
- toothdrawing
- underdrawing

## Related Forms
- draft
- drafter
- draftsman
- drawer
- drawnwork
- sketch

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: drauinge
- Root: dragende
- Root: *dragandz
- Root: *draganą

## Etymology
From Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic *dragandz (“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw + -ing.

## AI Etymology
Drawing comes from Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic *dragandz (“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw + -ing. In current use, the main senses are “A picture made with a pen, pencil, or crayon” and “The art or activity of making pictures with lines”.

## Topics
- Art & Music

markdown

drawing

Meanings

Thesaurus

Common collocations

Etymology

Topics

External links

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Send feedback