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written

adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɹɪ.tn̩//
  • /[ˈɹɪʔt̚n̩]/
  • /[ˈɹɪ.ʔn̩]/
  • /[ˈɹɪ.ɾn̩]/

Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

    Written language is a way of representing spoken language.

  2. 2

    Having been written.

    I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.

Etymology

Morphologically write + -en.

noun

  1. 1

    A rap that was written in advance, as opposed to a freestyle.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of writepast participle of write

    Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?

    The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

Forms

plural
writtens
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).