English Explanatory Dictionary

calligraphy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The art or practice of writing letters and words in a decorative style; the letters and words so written.
  2. Any such style of decorative writing.
  3. A document written in decorative style.

Pronunciation

kə-lĭg'rə-fi /kəˈlɪɡɹəfi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-calligraphy.wav

Word forms

calligraphy calligraphies

Etymology

Borrowed from French calligraphie, from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía, literally “pretty writing”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”).

Synonyms

chirography penmanship

Related words

calligrapher calligraphic

Derived words

calligraffiti fauxligraphy microcalligraphy

Translations

Albanian: bukurshkrim Arabic: خَطّ Armenian: գեղագրություն Armenian: վայելչագրություն Asturian: caligrafía Belarusian: калігра́фія Bulgarian: калиграфия Bulgarian: краснопис Bulgarian: пи́сане на ръка́ Catalan: cal·ligrafia Chinese Mandarin: 書法 /书法 Chinese Mandarin: 筆法 /笔法 Chinese Mandarin: 書道 /书道 Chinese Mandarin: 筆跡 /笔迹 Chinese Mandarin: 寫法 /写法 Corsican: calligrafia Corsican: calligraffia Czech: kaligrafie Czech: krasopis Danish: kalligrafi Dutch: kalligrafie Dutch: schoonschrijven Dutch: schoonschrift Dzongkha: ཡིག་བཟོའི་རིག་རྩལ Esperanto: kaligrafio Faroese: fagurskrift Faroese: skreytskrift Finnish: kalligrafia Finnish: kaunokirjoitus French: calligraphie French: chirographie Friulian: caligrafie Galician: caligrafía Georgian: კალიგრაფია Georgian: სუფთა წერა German: Kalligraphie German: Schönschreibkunst German: Schönschreiben German: Schönschrift German: gute Handschrift Greek: καλλιγραφία Hebrew: כתיבה תמה Hebrew: קליגרפיה Hindi: सुलेख Hungarian: kalligráfia Icelandic: skrautskrift Icelandic: skrautritun Indonesian: kaligrafi Irish: callagrafaíocht Italian: calligrafia Italian: chirografia Japanese: 書道 Japanese: 書法 Japanese: カリグラフィー Japanese: 習字 Kazakh: құсни жазу Khmer: ការសរសេរអក្សរផ្ចង់ Khmer: អក្សរផ្ចង់ Korean: 달필 Korean: 서법 Korean: 서예 Latvian: kaligrāfija Lithuanian: kaligrafija Malay: kaligrafi Malay: khat Malay: kirografi Māori: tuhi rerehua Māori: tuhiwhakairo Norwegian Bokmål: kalligrafi Norwegian Bokmål: skrivekunst Norwegian Nynorsk: kalligrafi Norwegian Nynorsk: skrivekunst Persian: خوشنویسی Persian: خطاطی
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