chirography
UK/kʌɪˈrɒɡrəfi/
chirography noun: synonym of handwriting or penmanship, one's personal skill at writing.
Noun
chirography (usually uncountable, plural chirographies)
- Synonym of handwriting or penmanship, one's personal skill at writing.
- A flourishing style of chirography is nowhere less in place than on a physician's prescription.1856, Edward Parrish, An Introduction to practical pharmacy
- Synonyms:
- handwriting or penmanship, one's personal skill at writing
- Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing.
- Synonyms:
- calligraphy
- Synonym of autograph, writing in one's own hand.
- Synonyms:
- autograph, writing in one's own hand
- Synonym of palmistry, fortune-telling based on one's hand.
- Synonyms:
- palmistry, fortune-telling based on one's hand
chirography meaning in Bengali
chirography in Bengali
- হাতের লেখার কলা, স্টাইল
Synonyms of chirography
- handwriting or penmanship
- one's personal skill at writing
- calligraphy
- autograph
- writing in one's own hand
- palmistry
- fortune-telling based on one's hand
Forms of chirography
| plural | chirographies |
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Origin of chirography
From chirograph + -y under influence from geography &c., from French chirographe, from Latin chirographus and chirographum, from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos) and χειρόγραφον (kheirógraphon), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + γραφος (graphos, “writing, written thing”). Equivalent to chiro- (“hand”) + -graphy (“writing”) and handwriting.
Words that rhyme with chirography
- geography
- choreography
- orthography
- topography
- hagiography
- heliography
- phonography
- semiography
- acrography
- autography
- bibliography
- cacography
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- chromography
- demography
- discography
- iconography
- isography
- logography
- ludography
- metallography
- micrography
- paleography
- pantography
- pornography
- scenography
- typography
- videography
- aerography
- archaeography
- arteriography
- arthrography
- autobiography
- autohagiography
- biogeography
- biography
- cartography
- cerography
- chronography
- cinematography
- cosmography
- crystallography
- dactylography
- demonography
- dittography
- electrography
- enterography
- ethnography
- etymography
- exogeography
- fluorography
- galvanography
- glossography
- heterography
- historiography
- homography
- horologiography
- ichnography
- laryngography
- mechanography
- megalography
Questions about chirography
- What does chirography mean?
- Chirography means synonym of handwriting or penmanship, one's personal skill at writing.
- What is chirography in Bengali?
- Chirography in Bengali is হাতের লেখার কলা, স্টাইল. See Chirography meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is chirography?
- Chirography is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chirography?
- Chirography is pronounced /kʌɪˈrɒɡrəfi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chirography?
- The plural of chirography is chirographies.
Words near chirography in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chirography (page history and authors); chirography (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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