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handwriting
[hand-rahy-ting]
noun
writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
a style or manner of writing by hand, especially that which characterizes a particular person; penmanship.
an eccentric handwriting.
a handwritten document; manuscript.
handwriting
/ ˈæԻˌɪɪŋ /
noun
writing by hand rather than by typing or printing
a person's characteristic writing style
that signature is in my handwriting
Word History and Origins
Origin of handwriting1
Idioms and Phrases
handwriting on the wall, a premonition, portent, or clear indication, especially of failure or disaster: Also writing on the wall.
The company had ignored the handwriting on the wall and was plunged into bankruptcy.
Example Sentences
It’s a numbers game, meticulously filling notebooks in handwriting Silverman describes as “tiny letters all perfectly the same size,” then revisiting and sharpening material until the joke emerges, like a vision.
They discovered that the handwriting and dimensions were consistent with those of the six previously known 1300 originals.
He also accused me of stealing keys to a car I didn’t drive and drafting words written in his handwriting.
That student occasionally popped by her class to examine how her handwriting, but not her sentiment, had changed.
On the other hand, the sitter’s handwriting is also proof that the portrait was drawn from life, not copied from a photograph.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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