wood engraving

1. 1.

   a print made from a woodcut

   Synonymswoodcut

   Broaderengraving
2. 2.

   engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints

   Synonymswoodcutwood block

   Broaderengraving

Questions about wood engraving

What does wood engraving mean?

wood engraving means "a print made from a woodcut". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wood engraving?

Close synonyms include woodcut, woodcut, wood block. 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 wood engraving a common word?

wood engraving 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.