BRAILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Braille mean? 

• BRAILLE (noun)
  The noun BRAILLE has 2 senses:

1. French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)

2. a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals

  Familiarity information: BRAILLE used as a noun is rare.

• BRAILLE (verb)
  The verb BRAILLE has 1 sense:

1. transcribe in braille

  Familiarity information: BRAILLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Braille; Louis Braille

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Derivation:

braille (transcribe in braille)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("braille" is a kind of...):

point system (a system of writing or printing using patterns of raised dots that can be read by touch)

Derivation:

braille (transcribe in braille)

• BRAILLE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transcribe in braille

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "braille" is one way to...):

transcribe; transliterate (rewrite in a different script)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

braille (a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals)

Braille (French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852))