xylograph

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UK/ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf/UK/ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹɑːf/US/ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹæf/US/ˈzaɪ.loʊ-/

noun

An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).

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Meanings

nounxylograph (plural xylographs)

plural xylographs

  1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).

    First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.

    2009, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Culture of the Book in Tibet, Columbia University Press, →ISBN

    Synonyms: woodcut

  2. A print taken from such an engraving.

    While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]

    2011, Udo J. Hebel, Christoph Wagner, Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 143
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    The restoration process brought to light a sarira box containing an artifact that rewrote that history: the oldest xylograph in the world, reproduced in ink from woodblocks with characters carved in relief, was found inside the box from the second […]

    2014, Sang-jin Park, Under the Microscope: The Secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 1
verbxylograph (third-person singular simple present xylographs, present participle xylographing, simple past and past participle xylographed)

present singular third person xylographs · participle present xylographing · participle past xylographed · past xylographed

  1. transitiveTo make a print from an engraving in wood.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).

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Origin

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.

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Translations

Bulgarian гравирам на дърво
  • гравирам на дърво (graviram na dărvo)to make a print from an engraving in wood
Finnish vedostaa (puukaiverruksesta), painaa (puukaiverruksesta)
  • vedostaa (puukaiverruksesta)to make a print from an engraving in wood
  • painaa (puukaiverruksesta)to make a print from an engraving in wood
Polish robić drzeworyt, zrobić drzeworyt
  • robić drzeworytto make a print from an engraving in wood
  • zrobić drzeworytto make a print from an engraving in wood
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APA

xylograph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/xylograph

MLA

“xylograph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/xylograph. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “xylograph,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/xylograph.

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