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Webster 1913 Edition

Penmanship

Pen′man-ship

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Noun.

The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography;

as, good or bad

penmanship

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Webster 1828 Edition

Penmanship

PEN'MANSHIP

,

Noun.

The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing.

1.

Manner of writing; as good or bad penmanship.

Definition 2024

penmanship

penmanship

English

Noun

penmanship ‎(usually uncountable, plural penmanships)

The art or skill of good handwriting; calligraphy.

Translations

art of good handwriting

Albanian: bukurshkrim (sq)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 書法 (zh), 书法 (zh) ‎(shūfǎ), 筆法 (zh), 笔法 (zh) ‎(bǐfǎ), 筆跡 (zh), 笔迹 (zh) ‎(bǐjì), 寫法 (zh), 写法 (zh) ‎(xiěfǎ)
Czech: krasopis m
Finnish: kaunokirjoitus (fi)
Japanese: 習字 ‎(しゅうじ, shūji), 書法 (ja) ‎(しょほう, shohō)
Korean: 서법 (ko) ‎(seobeop)
Latvian: kaligrāfija f

Portuguese: caligrafia (pt) f
Russian: чистописа́ние (ru) n ‎(čistopisánije), каллигра́фия (ru) f ‎(kalligráfija)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: краснопис m, красопис m, калиграфија f

Roman: krasnopis (sh) m, krasopis (sh) m, kaligrafija (sh) f
Spanish: caligrafía (es) f
Tagalog: sulat-kamay
Vietnamese: thư pháp (vi)