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Type Words
Synonyms piece of writing, written material
Type of black and white, written language, written communication
Has types sacred writing, screed, secret writing, religious text, section, redaction, subdivision, title, transcript, treatise, rescript, rewrite, sacred text, literary work, literary criticism, literary composition, lettering, journal, inscription, diary, dithyramb, document, essay, editing, religious writing, revision, bowdlerisation, dramatic work, version, autograph, dramatic composition, written document, adaptation, bowdlerization, plagiarism, paragraph, papers, criticism, cryptogram, cryptograph, ms, matter, manuscript, literature


the writing in her novels is excellent.
that editorial was a fine piece of writing.
Type Words
Synonyms authorship, composition, penning
Type of verbal creation
Has types drafting, dramatisation, dramatization, fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization, historiography, lexicography, metrification, novelisation, novelization, redaction, versification, adoxography
Derivation write


writing was a form of therapy for him.
Type Words
Synonyms committal to writing
Type of activity
Has types inscription, steganography, handwriting, coding, cryptography, secret writing, notation
Derivation write


she did the thinking while he did the writing.
Type Words
Type of written communication, black and white, written language
Has types typewriting, skywriting, script, printing process, printing, capitalisation, capitalization, coding system, orthography, notational system, notation, hieroglyphic, hieroglyph, hand, handwriting, writing system, typing


he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show.
the doctor's writing was illegible.
Type Words
Type of oeuvre, work, written communication, black and white, written language, body of work
Has types patristics, patrology


the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings.

Examples of writing

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The sixth-grade students have started the process of writing a persuasive essay.
From the desmoinesregister.com
In writing class students wrote about the real life heroes in their lives today.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Regulators are writing the rules to lessen risk and increase price transparency.
From the bloomberg.com
I'll keep writing for the paper, but this will be my last Savvy Consumer column.
From the stltoday.com
Lenders would be forbidden from threatening prosecution for writing a bad check.
From the stltoday.com
Sonka responded that the blog post was sarcastic, like much of his blog writing.
From the kentucky.com
It even apparently has a writing team in place to craft the write-up for offers.
From the cnn.com
I cannot express to you how much I do miss you, for writing won't do it justice.
From the edition.cnn.com
He has won the Associated Press Sports Editors national column writing 13 times.
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  • The act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
  • The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
  • (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"
  • Letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"
  • The activity of putting something in written form; "she did the thinking while he did the writing"
  • (writings) Hagiographa: the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
  • Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). ...
  • Ketuvim (/ku0259tuu02D0u02C8viu02D0m, ku0259u02C8tuu02D0vu026Am/; Biblical Hebrew: u05DBu05B0u05BCu05EAu05D5u05BCu05D1u05B4u05D9u05DDu200Eu200E Ku0259u1E6Fu00FBu1E07u00EEm, "writings") is the third and final section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), after Torah (instruction) and Nevi'im (prophets). In English translations of the Hebrew Bible, this section is usually entitled "Writings".
  • (The Writer) The Writer is a monthly magazine for writers published by the Kalmbach Publishing Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin. It was first established by William H. ...