PENNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penning mean? 

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

1. the act of creating written works

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of creating written works

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

authorship; composition; penning; writing

Context example:

it was a matter of disputed authorship

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

verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)

Domain member category:

script (write a script for)

write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)

cite; reference (refer to)

annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

ghost; ghostwrite (write for someone else)

co-author (be a co-author on (a book, a paper))

author (be the author of)

draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)

adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)

write copy (write for commercial publications)

rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)

dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)

paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)

profile (write about)

write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

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

adoxography (fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects)

drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)

dramatisation; dramatization (conversion into dramatic form)

fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)

historiography (the writing of history)

metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))

novelisation; novelization (converting something into the form of a novel)

redaction (the act of putting something in writing)

lexicography (the act of writing dictionaries)

versification (the art or practice of writing verse)

Derivation:

pen (produce a literary work)

 Context examples 

Whether they or their judges had any part in penning those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting, and glossing upon at their pleasure?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)