handwritten

See also: hand-written

English

A facsimile of a handwritten page from the Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More. Some scholars believe that this page is in the handwriting of William Shakespeare.

Alternative forms

• hand-written

Etymology

From hand +‎ written.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

handwritten (not comparable)

1. Written with a person's hand, as opposed to typed.
   • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:

     Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.

Synonyms

• longhand

Related terms

• handwriting

Translations

written with a pen or pencil

• Armenian: ձեռագիր (hy) (jeṙagir)
• Catalan: manuscrit (ca)
• Dutch: handgeschreven (nl)
• Finnish: käsinkirjoitettu
• Galician: manuscrito (gl) m
• German: handschriftlich (de)
• Greek: χειρόγραφος (el) (cheirógrafos)
• Hungarian: kézzel írott, kézírásos (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndskreven

  Nynorsk: handskriven

• Polish: odręczny (pl)
• Portuguese: manuscrito (pt)
• Russian: рукопи́сный (ru) (rukopísnyj)
• Swedish: handskriven (sv)

Verb

handwritten

1. past participle of handwrite