Write Definition
- To set one's own terms or course of action entirely according to one's own needs or wishes:
an open-ended and generous scholarship that lets recipients write their own ticket.
- To be the preeminent practitioner of or expert in (something).
- Signified, expressed, or embodied in a greater or more prominent magnitude or degree:
- to put into written form; write a record of
- to disparage or depreciate in writing
- to vote for (someone not officially on a ballot) by inserting that person's name on the ballot
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Write
- write (one's) own ticket
- write the book on
- writ large
- write down
- write in
- write (someone) into
- write off
- write out
- write (someone) out of
- write up
Origin of Write
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From Middle English writen, from Old English wrÄ«tan (“to incise, engrave, write, draw, bestow by writing"), from Proto-Germanic *wrÄ«tanÄ… (“to carve, write"), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear"). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear"), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel"), Dutch rijten (“to rip, tear"), Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split"), German reißen (“to tear, rip"), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model"), Icelandic ríta (“to cut, scratch, write"), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch").
From Wiktionary
Middle English writen from Old English wrītan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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