inscription

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
noun a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something
noun the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words

From Latin īnscrīptiō.

The walls are covered with inscriptions. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
What despair in those immovable inscriptions! — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
Davout took the packet and read the inscription. — War and Peace, Leo, graf Tolstoy

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