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letterboxing

letterboxing is the present participle and gerund of letterbox.

Noun

letterboxing (uncountable)

  1. A hobby in which participants attempt to locate small boxes containing rubber stamps by following clues.
  2. The practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.

Meaning of letterbox

Verb

letterbox (third-person singular simple present letterboxes, present participle letterboxing, simple past and past participle letterboxed)

  1. (transitive) To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To hunt for letterboxes (containers with logbook and rubber stamp) by following clues.

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Synonyms of letterboxing

Questions about letterboxing

What does letterboxing mean?
Letterboxing means a hobby in which participants attempt to locate small boxes containing rubber stamps by following clues.
What is letterboxing the present participle and gerund of?
Letterboxing is the present participle and gerund of letterbox.
What part of speech is letterboxing?
Letterboxing is a noun.

Words near letterboxing in the dictionary

  1. letterbox format
  2. letterboxed
  3. letterboxer
  4. letterboxers
  5. letterboxes
  6. letterboxing
  7. letterboxy
  8. lettercard
  9. lettercards
  10. lettercol
  11. lettercols

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Adapted from Wiktionary: letterboxing (page history and authors); letterbox (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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