writing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The activity of putting words on paper or screen.

   I came up with the ideas, and my partner did the writing.

2. 2
   noun

   Words or symbols written on a surface.

   I turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show.

3. 3
   noun

   The particular way a person forms letters by hand.

   I'm sorry, but I can't read your writing.

4. 4
   noun

   The collected works of an author.

   This idea appears again and again in Hemingway's writings.

From Middle English writinge, wrytynge, writende, writand, from Old English wrītende, present participle of Old English wrītan (“to scratch, carve, write”), equivalent to write + -ing.

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