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blacklettered

blacklettered adjective: written in black letter.

Adjective

blacklettered (not comparable)

  1. Written in black letter.
    • In the summer before Nick's senior year of high school, when Nick no longer left a three o'clock but stayed until the end of the working day, his father wrote the boy's name on a strip of masking tape and stuck it on the office door, right under his own blacklettered name.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 15, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 92

Origin of blacklettered

From black + lettered.

Questions about blacklettered

What does blacklettered mean?
Blacklettered means written in black letter.
What part of speech is blacklettered?
Blacklettered is an adjective.

Words near blacklettered in the dictionary

  1. blackless
  2. blacklessness
  3. blacklet
  4. blacklets
  5. blackletter
  6. blacklettered
  7. blackletters
  8. Blackley
  9. Blackleys
  10. blacklight
  11. blacklights

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