WRITTEN WORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does written word mean? 

• WRITTEN WORD (noun)
  The noun WRITTEN WORD has 1 sense:

1. the written form of a word

  Familiarity information: WRITTEN WORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRITTEN WORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The written form of a word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

a craftsman of the written word

Hypernyms ("written word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

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

bigram (a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system)

trigram (a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system)

tetragram (a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system)

 Context examples 

He may be uneducated, but he certainly knows how to express the significance of the written word.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)