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word paintings

word paintings is the plural of word painting.

Meaning of word painting

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.

Questions about word paintings

What is word paintings the plural of?
Word paintings is the plural of word painting.

Words near word paintings in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: word paintings (page history and authors); word painting (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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