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word painting

word painting noun: a visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.

Noun

word painting (countable and uncountable, plural word paintings)

  1. A visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
  2. The act of writing such a piece.
    • Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1
  3. Program music, or the process of composing it.

Forms of word painting

pluralword paintings

Questions about word painting

What does word painting mean?
Word painting means a visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
What part of speech is word painting?
Word painting is a noun.
What is the plural of word painting?
The plural of word painting is word paintings.

Words near word painting in the dictionary

  1. word on the wire
  2. word order
  3. word orders
  4. word painter
  5. word painters
  6. word painting
  7. word paintings
  8. word play
  9. word plays
  10. word problem
  11. word problems

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