LETTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lettering mean? 

• LETTERING (noun)
  The noun LETTERING has 1 sense:

1. letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

  Familiarity information: LETTERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LETTERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

inscription; lettering

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

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lettering"):

superscription (an inscription written above something else)

epigraph (an engraved inscription)

epitaph (an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there)

 Context examples 

It was above the usual size, with a soft lead, the outer colour was dark blue, the maker’s name was printed in silver lettering, and the piece remaining is only about an inch and a half long.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)