sealing wax

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   fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters

   Synonymsseal

   Broaderfastener

Questions about sealing wax

What does sealing wax mean?

sealing wax means "fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters".

What is another word for sealing wax?

Close synonyms include seal. 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 sealing wax a common word?

sealing wax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.