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calligraphing

calligraphing is the present participle and gerund of calligraph.

Meaning of calligraph

Verb

calligraph (third-person singular simple present calligraphs, present participle calligraphing, simple past and past participle calligraphed)

  1. To write using calligraphy.
    • In the window of one shop, I noticed a small hand-lettered sign saying that materials for calligraphers were available, that calligraphed books were bought and sold.1993, Henry H. Glassie, Turkish Traditional Art Today, page 109

Questions about calligraphing

What is calligraphing the present participle and gerund of?
Calligraphing is the present participle and gerund of calligraph.

Words near calligraphing in the dictionary

  1. calligraphic projection
  2. calligraphical
  3. calligraphically
  4. calligraphics
  5. calligraphies
  6. calligraphing
  7. calligraphist
  8. calligraphists
  9. calligraphs
  10. calligraphy
  11. Callihan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calligraphing (page history and authors); calligraph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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