calligraphy

• POS: Noun, Adverb
• HYPHEN: cal=lig=ra=phy

CIDE DICTIONARY

calligraphy, n. [Gr. : cf. F. calligraphie.].

 Fair or elegant penmanship.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

calligraphy, n.
1 handwriting, esp. when fine or pleasing.
2 the art of handwriting.

Derivative

calligrapher n. calligraphic adj. calligraphist n.

Etymology

Gk kalligraphia f. kallos beauty

THESAURUS

calligraphy

abstract art, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, autography, cave art, ceramics, chirography, copybook hand, decoration, design, designing, elegant penmanship, engraving, etching, fair hand, fine arts, fine hand, fine writing, fist, folk art, good fist, good hand, graphanalysis, graphic arts, graphology, graphometry, hand, handwriting, manuscript, paleography, pencraft, penmanship, penscript, photography, plastic art, primitive art, script, scription, scrive, sculpture, stylography, the arts

ROGET THESAURUS

calligraphy

Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.