written word

Hyponyms

bigram

Examples

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. John Steinbeck

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Kingman Brewster, Jr.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. Lascelles Abercrombie

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. Malala Yousafzai

One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Japanese Proverb

The spoken word vanishes, the written word remains. [Vox audita perit, litteras scripta manet.]. Latin Proverb

Words in the phrase

written word

Close letter words and terms

written with a felt-tip pen written with a pen written with a pencil written work written works writtenness