Definitions for inscription

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inscription in·scrip·tion

Spelling: [in-skrip-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪnˈskrɪp ʃən/

Inscription is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 454 anagrams from letters in inscription (ciiinnoprst).

Definitions for inscription

noun

1. something inscribed.
2. a historical, religious, or other record cut, impressed, painted, or written on stone, brick, metal, or other hard surface.
3. a brief, usually informal dedication, as of a book or a work of art.
4. a note, as a dedication, that is written and signed by hand in a book.
5. the act of inscribing.
6. Pharmacology. the part of a prescription indicating the drugs and the amounts to be mixed.
7. British. an issue of securities or stocks. a block of shares in a stock, as bought or sold by one person.
8. Also called legend. Numismatics. the lettering in the field of a coin, medal, etc.

Origin of inscription

1350-1400; Middle English inscripcio(u)n Latin inscrīptiōn- (stem of inscrīptiō), equivalent to inscrīpt(us) (past participle of inscrībere to inscribe) + -iōn- <

Examples for inscription

Lane discovers a lost wallet in the back of a taxi; inside, is a photograph of a young woman with a girlish “XXOO” inscription.

The inscription will identify the period and site of the tomb.

The inscription from Nader reads, “Grover, for the imagination.”

Below that, this inscription: “For the return of Crimea 20.02.14 - 03.18.14.”

So says the inscription on a large slab of black marble in the floor of the chapel.

But the dove has long since disappeared, and there remains now but the rod and the inscription.

Karla will use that lighter—and that inscription—in the years to come.

Below the dove and rod there was this inscription: 'This shall lead you unto all Truth.'

We were just going to offer our Vicar, but he has no inscription on him.

There is an inscription on one of the flags—I can read it quite plainly.