woodcut

English

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1536, woodcut (1)

Albrecht Dürer, Rhinocerus, 1515, woodcut (3)

Etymology

wood +‎ cut

Noun

woodcut (countable and uncountable, plural woodcuts)

1. (countable) An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.

   Synonyms: woodblock, xylograph

2. (uncountable) A method of printmaking from such a block.

   Synonym: xylography

   Coordinate terms: linocut, metalcut, woodblock printing, wood engraving

   Hypernym: relief printing

3. (countable) A print produced with this method.

   Synonyms: woodblock, xylograph

Translations

method of printmaking

• Bulgarian: ксилогра́фия f (ksilográfija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木版術, 木版术 (mùbǎnshù), 木版印刷法 (mùbǎn yìnshuāfǎ)

• Czech: dřevoryt m
• Danish: xylografi c, træsnit n
• Dutch: xylografie (nl) f
• Estonian: puulõikekunst
• Faroese: træskurður m
• Finnish: ksylografia, puukaiverrus
• French: xylographie (fr) f, gravure sur bois f
• Galician: gravado en madeira, xilografía (gl) f
• German: Holzschnitt (de) m, Holzschneidekunst (de) f, Xylographie (de) f, Xylografie (de) f
• Greek: ξυλογραφία (el) f (xylografía)
• Indonesian: silografi

• Irish: greanadh adhmaid m
• Italian: xilografia (it) f
• Japanese: 木版術 (もくはんじゅつ, mokuhanjutsu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tresnitt n

  Nynorsk: tresnitt n

• Polish: drzeworytnictwo n
• Portuguese: xilografia (pt) f
• Russian: ксилогра́фия (ru) f (ksilográfija)
• Slovak: xylografia f, drevorytectvo n, drevorezba f
• Spanish: xilografía (es) f
• Swedish: träsnitt n
• Turkish: ksilografi, ağaç baskısı
• Ukrainian: деревори́т m (derevorýt)

print

• Czech: dřevoryt m
• Finnish: ksylografia
• German: Holzschnitt (de) m

• Greek: ξυλογραφία (el) f (xylografía), ξυλογράφημα (el) n (xylográfima)
• Polish: drzeworyt (pl) m
• Slovak: drevoryt m

See also

• pyrography
• wood engraving
• woodblock printing
• xylography

Further reading

• woodcut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia