- the act of a person or thing that writes.
- written form: to commit one's thoughts to writing.
- that which is written; characters or matter written with a pen or the like: His writing is illegible.
- such characters or matter with respect to style, kind, quality, etc.
- an inscription.
- a letter.
- any written or printed paper, as a document or deed.
- literary or musical style, form, quality, technique, etc.: Her writing is stilted.
- a literary composition or production.
- the profession of a writer: He turned to writing at an early age.
- Hagiographa.
- a group of letters or symbols written or marked on a surface as a means of communicating ideas by making each symbol stand for an idea, concept, or thing, by using each symbol to represent a set of sounds grouped into syllables (syllabic writing), or by regarding each symbol as corresponding roughly or exactly to each of the sounds in the language (alphabetic writing)
- short for handwriting
- anything expressed in letters, esp a literary composition
- the work of a writer
- literary style, art, or practice
- written form
- related to or used in writing
- a sign or signs of approaching disaster
