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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Antonyms 1.2.3 Derived terms 1.2.4 Translations 1.3 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• SAMPA: {{{1}}}
• IPA: /'rɪtn̩/
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  Rhymes: -ɪtən

• Hyphenation: writ‧ten

[edit] Adjective

written (comparative more written, superlative most written)

1. Of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)

   I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.

2. That was written.

[edit] Quotations

• 1978, Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass, Writing and Difference, page 62:

  It is more written than said

• 1991, Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein, Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History‎, page 109:

  ... although certainly more written than oral, are radically implicated in orality because of their performative nature and susceptibility to "mouvance"

• 1994, Marvin L. Kalb, The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press‎, page 68:

  Strmecki reworked the draft, making it seem "more written than spoken."

• 1996, Richard M. Swiderski, The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages‎, page 83:

  The Chinese is more written than the English in that the writing is more removed from speech than the phonetic English.

• 1998, Ilana Snyder, Michael Joyce, Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era‎, page 96:

  Yates concludes that in terms of lexical density, 'CMC users package information in text in ways that are more written than speech-like'

• 1998, Charles Bernstein, Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word‎, page 211:

  printed in caps to suggest that the whole performance be thought of as one gigantic sentence. If Silliman's talk is more written than spoken, ...

• 2003, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004‎, page 71:

  Even insults, when they are traded, seem more written than felt.

[edit] Antonyms

• oral
• verbal

[edit] Derived terms

• hand-written

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

written

1. Past participle of write.

   Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?