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engravings

engravings is the plural of engraving.

Meaning of engraving

Noun

engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)

  1. The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
  2. The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
  3. (countable) 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
  4. 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

  1. engravery
  2. engraves
  3. engravest
  4. engraveth
  5. engraving
  6. engravings
  7. engreaten
  8. engreatened
  9. engreatening
  10. engreatens
  11. Engred

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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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