calligraphy

calligraphy
Synonyms and related words:
abstract art, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, autography, cave art, ceramics, chirography, copybook hand, decoration, design, designing, elegant penmanship, engraving, etching, fair hand, fine arts, fine hand, fine writing, fist, folk art, good fist, good hand, graphanalysis, graphic arts, graphology, graphometry, hand, handwriting, manuscript, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, photography, plastic art, primitive art, script, scription, scrive, sculpture, stylography, the arts

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  • Calligraphy — (from Greek polytonic|κάλλος kallos beauty + polytonic|γραφή graphẽ writing ) is the art of writing (Mediavilla 1996: 17). A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and… …   Wikipedia

  • Calligraphy — Cal*lig ra*phy, n. [Gr. ???????????: cf. F. calligraphie.] Fair or elegant penmanship. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • calligraphy — index handwriting, script Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • calligraphy — 1610s, from Gk. kaligraphia, from kallos beauty + graphein to write (see GRAPHY (Cf. graphy)). Related: Calligraphic. The usual comb. form in Greek was kalli beautiful, fine, happy, favorable; kalo was a later, rarer alternative form …   Etymology dictionary

  • calligraphy — ► NOUN ▪ decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering. DERIVATIVES calligrapher noun calligraphic adjective. ORIGIN Greek kalligraphia, from kalligraphos person who writes beautifully …   English terms dictionary

  • calligraphy — [kə lig′rə fē] n. [Gr kalligraphia < kalligraphos < kallos, beauty + graphein, to write: see GRAPHIC] 1. beautiful handwriting, esp. as an art 2. handwriting; penmanship calligrapher n. calligraphist calligraphic [kal΄ə graf′ik] adj …   English World dictionary

  • calligraphy — calligrapher, calligraphist, n. calligraphic /kal i graf ik/, calligraphical, adj. calligraphically, adv. /keuh lig reuh fee/, n. 1. fancy penmanship, esp. highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the… …   Universalium

  • calligraphy — [[t]kəlɪ̱grəfi[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen. 2) N UNCOUNT Calligraphy is beautiful and artistic handwriting. Her calligraphy was the clearest I d ever seen …   English dictionary

  • calligraphy —     Both ransom notes have been forwarded to calligraphy experts in Rome (Daily Mail). The writer meant graphologists or graphology experts. Calligraphy is an art …   Dictionary of troublesome word

  • calligraphy — noun Calligraphy is used before these nouns: ↑pen …   Collocations dictionary

  • calligraphy — Каллиграфия (Calligraphy)     Искусство красивого художественного письма. История каллиграфии связана с историей шрифта [упорядоченное множество знаков определенной системы письма] и орудий письма (тростниковые и птичьи перья, кисти и т.д.), а… …   Шрифтовая терминология

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