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inscriptions

inscriptions is the plural of inscription.

Meaning of inscription

Noun

inscription (countable and uncountable, plural inscriptions)

  1. The act of inscribing.
    • The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;2008 June 18, Joint Communiqué, Council of Ministers of Cambodia, page 3
  2. Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
    • He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; […]1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days
  3. The text on a coin.
    • The coin bears an inscription in Latin.
    Synonyms:
    legend
  4. Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

Questions about inscriptions

What is inscriptions the plural of?
Inscriptions is the plural of inscription.

Words near inscriptions in the dictionary

  1. inscriptionally
  2. inscriptioned
  3. inscriptionist
  4. inscriptionists
  5. inscriptionless
  6. inscriptions
  7. inscriptive
  8. inscriptively
  9. inscripts
  10. inscripturate
  11. inscripturated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inscriptions (page history and authors); inscription (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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