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[gruh-fee-tee]

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noun

plural of graffito.

(used with a plural verb) markings, as initials, slogans, or drawings, written, spray-painted, or sketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom, or the like: These graffiti are evidence of the neighborhood's decline.

(used with a singular verb) such markings as a whole or as constituting a particular group: Not much graffiti appears around here these days.

Origin:
1850–55; < Italian, plural of graffito incised inscription or design, derivative with -ito -ite² of graffiare to scratch, perhaps influenced by presumed Latin *graphīre to write; both probably derivative of Latin graphium stylus < Greek grapheîon; compare graphic, grapho-, graft¹

Related forms

graf·fi·tist, noun

Usage note
In formal speech and writing graffiti takes a plural verb. In less formal contexts it is sometimes considered a mass noun and is used with a singular verb. The singular graffito is found mostly in archaeological and other technical writing.

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Gang graffiti is one of the best indications of gang territory and which gangs are at war with one another.

He has had more than a few confrontations with police officers and was even arrested once for spray-painting graffiti on a.

Anti-American graffiti and posters have suddenly appeared throughout the city.

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Gang graffiti is one of the best indications of gang territory and which gangs are at war with one another.

He has had more than a few confrontations with police officers and was even arrested once for spray-painting graffiti on a.

Anti-American graffiti and posters have suddenly appeared throughout the city.

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Several types of bar-code readers make instant sense of these high-tech graffiti.

Today, many tourists are put off by the cluttered graffiti that lines the trail.

Insurgents also used graffiti to get their point across.

After a long and scurrilous underground career, graffiti has surfaced on the chaste white walls of galleries and museums.

Others see it as the equivalent of graffiti on the human form.

At night, anti-Castro graffiti appear and stones and bottles fly in blacked-out streets.

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Light graffiti is a great idea: all the art, none of the vandalism.

The team also found less litter and graffiti in natural landscapes.

He's a graffiti artist, so he sometimes sees his real name in.

In the past few years, as street art has exploded from variations on fat- lettered graffiti to sophisticated murals and.

Largely dismissed as vandalism, graffiti migrates from city streets and subway cars into major galleries.

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Moscow is becoming a stage for local and international graffiti artists.

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The spark appears to have been the arrest of more than a dozen teenagers last week for painting anti-regime graffiti on a wall.

Ford's digital graffiti wall encouraged visitors to express themselves artistically.

Many had a backdrop of posters, graffiti or billboards, which gave a commentary of sorts.

Better yet, give me people who think rock art is nothing more than a bunch of old graffiti on a boulder or cave wall.

The soldiers have done nothing to stop the crowds spraying anti-Mubarak graffiti on their armoured vehicles.

Once again, racist graffiti is beginning to resurface around town.

By the end of seven weeks, the team had captured everything, even ancient graffiti.

One abandoned building bears graffiti of the kind that is normally found in big cities:.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural -ti

[-tee] .

Archaeology. an ancient drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface.

a single example of graffiti.

Origin:
see graffiti

Usage note
See graffiti.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

graffiti (ɡræˈfiːtiː)

—*pl n* , sing -to
1.	(sometimes with singular verb) drawings, messages, etc, often obscene, scribbled on the walls of public lavatories, advertising posters, etc
2.	archaeol inscriptions or drawings scratched or carved onto a surface, esp rock or pottery

[C19: graffito from Italian: a little scratch, from graffio, from Latin graphium stylus, from Greek grapheion; see graft¹]

graf'fitist

—n

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Word Origin & History

graffiti

1851, for ancient wall inscriptions found in the ruins of Pompeii, from It. graffiti, pl. of graffito "a scribbling," a dim. formation from graffio "a scratch or scribble," from graffiare "to scribble." Sense extended 1877 to recently made crude drawings and scribbling.

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Graffiti definition

Handwriting recognition software for the Newton and Zoomer which recognises symbols that aren't necessarily letters. This gives greater speed and accuracy. It was written by Berkeley Softworks.
(1995-01-24)

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