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nouna short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something
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nounletters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
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nounthe activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or wordstype of:
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- roman a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- roman characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- tablet a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription
- celtic a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era
- sarcophagus a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
- epitaph an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there
- hittite the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions
- phrygian a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions
- anatolian an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
- sabellian an extinct Osco-Umbrian language of ancient Italy that survives only in a few inscriptions