PRINTMAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does printmaking mean? 

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

1. artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINTMAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

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

engraving; etching (making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them)

serigraphy (the act of making a print by the silkscreen method)

lithography (the act of making a lithographic print)