Orthography
[ɔː'θɒgrəfɪ] or [ɔr'θɑɡrəfi]
Definition
(noun.) a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols.
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Definition
(n.) The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious.
(n.) The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.
(n.) A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.
Edited by Barrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spelling.
Typist: Nelly
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane. They have had to concede a few things since the time of Chaucer but are none the less hot in defence of those to be conceded hereafter.
Editor: Nettie
Examples
- As the Indians had no letters, they had no orthography. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of embroidery and needlework, she will be found to have realized her friends' fondest wishes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then the bay tried me with a second word, much harder to be pronounced; but reducing it to the English orthography, may be spelt thus, _Houyhnhnm_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We will not copy the rest of the orthography, which was very peculiar, but translate it into legible English. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Maureen