WRITE OF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does write of mean? 

• WRITE OF (verb)
  The verb WRITE OF has 1 sense:

1. write about a particular topic

  Familiarity information: WRITE OF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRITE OF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write about a particular topic

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

write about; write of; write on

Context example:

Snow wrote about China

Hypernyms (to "write of" is one way to...):

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

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I now write of the time when I had been married, I suppose, about a year and a half.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all, but she could see it and write of it without material pain.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My dear, this quite upset me, and I feel I cannot write of happiness just at once, after telling you of it; and I don't wish to tell of the number three until it can be all happy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is no worse, because I write of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I write of her just as she was when I had gone to bed after this talk, and she came to bid me good night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I look back on the time I write of; I invoke the innocent figure that I dearly loved, to come out from the mists and shadows of the past, and turn its gentle head towards me once again; and I can still declare that this one little speech was constantly in my memory.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)