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Definition of "write" []

  • To form (letters, words, or symbols) on a surface such as paper with an instrument such as a pen. (verb-transitive)
  • To spell: How do you write your name? (verb-transitive)
  • To form (letters or words) in cursive style. (verb-transitive)
  • To compose and set down, especially in literary or musical form: write a poem; write a prelude. (verb-transitive)
  • To draw up in legal form; draft: write a will. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "write" in a sentence
  • "Based on my experience, I think blogging a story is a great way to discover what you want to write about in the actual manuscript, but not a great way to *write* a manuscript."
  • "+May write, can write, must write, might write, could write, would write+, and +should write+ may each be resolved into an asserting word and an infinitive."
  • "Then, after dinner, when the lamps were lit, and Mrs. Ukridge petted Edwin and sewed, and Ukridge smoked cigars and incited the gramophone to murder "Mumbling Mose," I would steal away to my bedroom and write -- and write -- and _write_ -- and go on writing till my fingers were numb and my eyes refused to do their duty."