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xylograph

UK/ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf//ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹæf/

xylograph noun: an engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).

xylograph: an engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition...
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Noun

xylograph (plural xylographs)

  1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
    • First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.2009, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Culture of the Book in Tibet, Columbia University Press, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    woodcut
  2. A print taken from such an engraving.
    • While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]2011, Udo J. Hebel, Christoph Wagner, Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 143
    • The restoration process brought to light a sarira box containing an artifact that rewrote that history: the oldest xylograph in the world, reproduced in ink from woodblocks with characters carved in relief, was found inside the box from the second […]2014, Sang-jin Park, Under the Microscope: The Secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 1

Verb

xylograph (third-person singular simple present xylographs, present participle xylographing, simple past and past participle xylographed)

  1. (transitive) To make a print from an engraving in wood.

xylograph meaning in Tamil

xylograph in Tamil

மரச்செதுக்கு வேலைப்பாட்டுப் பொருள், மரவரி வேலைப்பாட்டுப் பொருள்

Synonyms of xylograph

Forms of xylograph

Noun
pluralxylographs
Verb
third-person singular presentxylographs
present participlexylographing
past participlexylographed
pastxylographed

Origin of xylograph

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.

Questions about xylograph

What does xylograph mean?
Xylograph means an engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
What is xylograph in Tamil?
Xylograph in Tamil is மரச்செதுக்கு வேலைப்பாட்டுப் பொருள், மரவரி வேலைப்பாட்டுப் பொருள். See Xylograph meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is xylograph?
Xylograph can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce xylograph?
Xylograph is pronounced /ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf/ (UK).
What is the plural of xylograph?
The plural of xylograph is xylographs.

Words near xylograph in the dictionary

  1. xyloglucosides
  2. xyloglucosyl
  3. xyloglyphy
  4. xylogranatin
  5. xylogranatins
  6. xylograph
  7. xylographed
  8. xylographer
  9. xylographers
  10. xylographic
  11. xylographica

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xylograph (page history and authors); xylograph (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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