engravings
engravings is the plural of engraving.
Meaning of engraving
Noun
engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)
- The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
- The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
- A print produced from an engraving.
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
Phrases with engravings
Questions about engravings
- What is engravings the plural of?
- Engravings is the plural of engraving.
Words near engravings in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: engravings (page history and authors); engraving (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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