ορθογραφία — meaning in English
orthografia
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English meaning
- dictation noun The act of speaking words aloud for someone to write down, or the words produced this way.
- orthography noun A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
Senses
ορθογραφία is used for these senses in English:
- dictation (countable, uncountable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
orthography — full definition
- noun A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
- noun A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
- noun The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
- noun Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.