woodcut

1. 1.

   a print made from a woodcut

   Synonymswood engraving

   Broaderengraving
2. 2.

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

   Synonymswood blockwood engraving

   Broaderengraving

Other forms of woodcut

plural

woodcuts·

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 woodcut

What does woodcut mean?

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

How many syllables are in woodcut?

woodcut has 2 syllables: wood-cut. The stress falls on "wood".

What is another word for woodcut?

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

woodcut 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.