Usually means: Art of writing by hand.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word penmanship:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. penmanship: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. penmanship: Merriam-Webster
  3. penmanship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. penmanship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. penmanship: Collins English Dictionary
  6. penmanship: Vocabulary.com
  7. Penmanship, penmanship: Wordnik
  8. penmanship: Wiktionary
  9. penmanship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. penmanship: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. penmanship: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Penmanship, penmanship: Dictionary.com
  13. penmanship: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. penmanship: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Penmanship (disambiguation), Penmanship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Penmanship: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. penmanship: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. penmanship: Rhymezone
  19. Penmanship: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. penmanship: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Penmanship, Penmanship: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. penmanship: FreeDictionary.org
  23. penmanship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. penmanship: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penmanship: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penmanship: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Synonym of handwriting or chirography, one's own style of writing.
▸ noun:  Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing.

Similar:
calligraphy, hand, chirography, handwriting, character, penpersonship, writing, autography, scription, small hand, more...

Opposite:
illiteracy, illegibility, scribble, scrawl, chicken scratch

Types:
copperplate, cursive, italic, script, block, print, more...

Adjectives:
good, beautiful, poor, fine, neat, elegant, excellent, bad, perfect, ornamental, clear


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Similar:
calligraphy, hand, chirography, handwriting, character, penpersonship, writing, autography, scription, small hand, more...

Opposite:
illiteracy, illegibility, scribble, scrawl, chicken scratch

Types:
copperplate, cursive, italic, script, block, print, more...

Adjectives:
good, beautiful, poor, fine, neat, elegant, excellent, bad, perfect, ornamental, clear



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