Synonyms:
inscription, lettering
Meaning: letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
Usage examples
As the inscription had been effaced by time, it was left there to be used as a seat.
'Apple-pie order!' said Mr Boffin, after checking off each inscription with his hand, like a man beating time.
At its head stood a board with this curious inscription: "This man says he was a private in the Fifth Iowa Regiment.
One of his ideas concerning the law of the successive distances was based on the inscription of a triangle in a circle.
His tomb was of marble, and, without any art nonsense or laudatory inscription, quietly imposing--such being the fashion of his time.
The inscription over Shakespeare's grave is an offer of reward if you do, and a threat of punishment if you don't, all in choice doggerel.
'The material of the Palace proved on examination to be indeed porcelain, and along the face of it I saw an inscription in some unknown character.
In this same room is a portrait of Washington upon which is the inscription: "This picture of the liberator of North America is sent by his adopted son to him who acquired equal glory in South America."
On the carved marble to Lord Cornwallis I read that, "He defeated the Americans with great slaughter." And so, wherever in England I see a beautiful monument, I know that probably the inscription will tell how "he defeated" somebody.
The tire bore this simple inscription: "Rebecca Winters, aged 50 years." The hoofs of stock tramped the sunken grave and trod it into dust, but the arch of the tire remained to defy the strength of thoughtless hands that would have removed it.