photogravure

Other forms of photogravure

plural

photogravures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about photogravure

What does photogravure mean?

photogravure means "printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in photogravure?

photogravure has 4 syllables: pho-to-gra-vure. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for photogravure?

Close synonyms include gravure, heliogravure, rotogravure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photogravure a common word?

photogravure is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.