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View synonyms for written

written

[ rit-n ]

verb

  1. a past participle of write.


adjective

  1. expressed in writing ( spoken ).

written

/ ˈrɪtən /

verb

  1. See write
    the past participle of write


adjective

  1. See spoken
    taken down in writing; transcribed Compare spoken

    the written word

    written evidence

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Other Words From

  • half-written adjective
  • pre·written adjective
  • self-written adjective
  • well-written adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of written1

First recorded before 1000, for the adjective

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Example Sentences

Michael Kazin is a historian who has written a lot about the New Left.

But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement.

The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

Among the characters to be portrayed were the people I had written about—the unsung heroes of the Selma campaign.

It was different, he said, from any other song he had ever written.

But if the Bible was written by men, some of them more or less inspired, then it would not, in all probability be wholly perfect.

A considerable proportion of the industrial and commercial news is now written to an end.

Accustomed to a written character, their eyes became wearied by the crabbedness and formality of type.

They embody in themselves the uppermost thought of the era that was dawning when they were written.

I have written to her, and to Mrs. Coningsby; and she is perfectly free: every bond is relinquished, but that of the heart.

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