written
Americanverb
adjective
verb
adjective
Other Word Forms
- half-written adjective
- prewritten adjective
- self-written adjective
- well-written adjective
Etymology
Origin of written
First recorded before 1000, for the adjective
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Example Sentences
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He will be collecting tonight's Songwriter of the Year award, despite recently confessing to not having written a song in two years.
From BBC
Some of their resemblance is written into the script, seen in their similar costumes and nearly identical hairstyles, down to their golden ringlets.
From Salon
“This was written very intentionally as a story with a beginning, middle, end,” Greenberg said in a recent video interview from her Los Angeles home.
From Los Angeles Times
It was written while the then Princess Elizabeth was at Praa Sands in Cornwall sometime between 1936 and 1940, at which time she would have been between 10 and 12 years old.
From BBC
A Woolworths spokesperson said in a statement to the BBC that the responses about birthdays had been written by a human.
From BBC
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