Italic (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
  2. of or relating to Italy, especially ancient Italy or its tribes.
noun
  1. italic type.
  2. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including ancient Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and modern Romance.
adjective
  1. of, relating to, or denoting a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
noun
  1. a style of printing type modelled on this, chiefly used to indicate emphasis, a foreign word, etc
  2. italic type or print
noun
  1. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages that includes many of the ancient languages of Italy, such as Venetic and the Osco-Umbrian group, Latin, which displaced them, and the Romance languages
adjective
  1. denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages, esp the extinct ones
Italic (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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