Write meaning

What does “write” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“write” is a verb with 8 meanings. Its most common meaning is: produce a literary work.

write

produce a literary work
“She composed a poem”
“He wrote four novels”
Synonymscompose pen indite
communicate or express by writing
“He wrote about his great love for his wife”
communicate (with) in writing
“Write her soon, please!”
Synonymsdrop a line
write music
“Beethoven composed nine symphonies”
Synonymscompose
mark or trace on a surface
“The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper”
“Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet”
record data on a computer
“boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk”
Synonymssave
write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
“He spelled the word wrong in this letter”
Synonymsspell
create code, write a computer program
“She writes code faster than anybody else”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University