text
/tɛkst/
text noun: a writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. Also the ellipsis of text message.
Noun
text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
- Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- Antonyms:
- binary
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- German text
- Synonyms:
- text hand
Verb
text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (colloquial) text)
- To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
- Just text me when you get here.
- I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
- To send and receive text messages.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
- To write in large characters, as in text hand.
- I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, act 2, scene 1
- The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies...2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223
Also used as
text is also the ellipsis of text message.
text meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
text in Hindi
- a written passage
- पाठ pāṭh, टेक्स्ट ṭeksṭ
text in Urdu
- a written passage
- مَتْن matn, ٹِکْسْٹ ṭiksṭ, ٹیکْسْٹ ṭeksṭ, نَوِشْتَہ naviśta
text in Bengali
- a written passage
- পাঠ paṭh
- a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
- এসএমএস eśoemoes
- to send a text message to
- এসএমএস করা eśoemoes kora
text in Telugu
- a written passage
- పాఠము pāṭhamu
More languagesFewer languages
- text in Malayalam
- പാഠം pāṭhaṁ
- text in Punjabi
- ਪਾਠ pāṭh
- text in Sanskrit
- पाठ pāṭha
- text in Pashto
- متن matən, نوشته naweštá
- text in Tagalog
- lamandiwa, teksto
- text in Arabic
- نَصّ naṣṣ, مَتْن matn, رِسَالَة risāla, مِيسِيج mīsij
- text in Malay
- teks
- text in Indonesian
- teks
- text in Persian
- نوشتار neveštār, کتاب ketāb
- text in Thai
- ข้อความ kɔ̂ɔ-kwaam, ตำรา dtam-raa, ข้อความสั้น
- text in Vietnamese
- văn bản, nhắn tin
- text in Myanmar
- စာသား casa:, စာကိုယ် cakuiy
Examples of text in a sentence
- This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.
- Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.
- Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
Synonyms of text
Antonyms
Forms of text
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | texts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | texts |
| present participle | texting |
| past participle | texted |
| past | texted |
| past participle (colloquial) | text |
| past (colloquial) | text |
Origin of text
From Middle English text, from Old French texte, from Medieval Latin textus, from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“to weave”). Cognate to texture.
Words formed from text
- alt text
- audiotext
- bi-text
- bitext
- blue text
- body text
- church text
- ciphertext
- cleartext
- clobber text
- codetext
- context
- copytext
- cotext
- countertext
- cybertext
- cyphertext
- detext
- drunk text
- dystextia
- enriched text
- e-text
- Eurotext
- fext
- flavor text
- flavour text
- fulltext
- greentext
- green text
- here-text
- heterotext
- hover text
- hypotext
- infotext
- intertext
- intext
- in-text
- intexticated
- macrotext
- martext
- meaning-text model
- meaning-text theory
- microtext
- mistext
- nontext
- parallel text
- paratext
- petextrian
- playtext
- predictive text
- pretext
- prooftext
- rich text
- scrolltext
- sext
- sex-text
- sexting
- small text
- songtext
- source text
Phrases with text
- text box
- flat text
- holy text
- text book
- text file
- text hand
- text hook
- text link
- text neck
- text type
- text wall
- dummy text
47 more phrasesFewer phrases
- plain text
- text books
- text boxes
- text creep
- text files
- text hands
- text hooks
- text links
- text types
- text walls
- timed text
- double text
- glitch text
- sacred text
- splash text
- target text
- text editor
- text hooker
- text tennis
- visual text
- running text
- taproot text
- text editors
- text hookers
- text message
- wall of text
- text messaged
- text messages
- text painting
- walls of text
- religious text
- text adventure
- text messaging
- text paintings
- text retrieval
- non-linear text
- text adventures
- text retrievals
- text linguistics
- stick to one's text
- stuck to one's text
- text door neighbour
- text simplification
- sticks to one's text
- text door neighbours
- text simplifications
- sticking to one's text
Words that rhyme with text
Questions about text
- What does text mean?
- Text means a writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- What is text in Hindi?
- Text in Hindi is पाठ (pāṭh), टेक्स्ट (ṭeksṭ). See Text meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is text?
- Text can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce text?
- Text is pronounced /tɛkst/.
- What is the plural of text?
- The plural of text is texts.
Words near text in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: text (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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