Heinrich Aldegrever, 1536, woodcut (1)
Albrecht Dürer, Rhinocerus, 1515, woodcut (3)
Etymology
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wood + cut
woodcut (countable and uncountable, plural woodcuts)
- (countable) An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.
- Synonyms: woodblock, woodprint, xylograph
- (uncountable) A method of printmaking from such a block.
- Synonym: xylography
- Hypernym: relief printing
- Coordinate terms: linocut, metalcut, woodblock printing, wood engraving
- (countable) A print produced with this method.
- Synonyms: woodblock, xylograph
Translations
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method of printmaking
- Bulgarian: ксилогра́фия f (ksilográfija)
- Catalan: xilografia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 木版術／木版术 (mùbǎnshù), 木版印刷法 (mùbǎn yìnshuāfǎ)
- Czech: dřevoryt m
- Danish: xylografi c, træsnit n
- Dutch: xylografie (nl) f
- Estonian: puulõikekunst
- Faroese: træskurður m
- Finnish: puukaiverrus, ksylografia
- French: xylographie (fr) f, gravure sur bois (fr) f
- Galician: gravado en madeira, xilografía (gl) f
- German: Holzschnitt (de) m, Holzschneidekunst (de) f, Xylographie (de) f, Xylografie (de) f
- Greek: ξυλογραφία (el) f (xylografía)
- Indonesian: silografi
- Irish: greanadh adhmaid m
- Italian: xilografia (it) f
- Japanese: 木版術 (もくはんじゅつ, mokuhanjutsu)
- Korean: 목판 인쇄(木版印刷) (mokpan inswae)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tresnitt n
- Nynorsk: tresnitt n
- Polish: drzeworytnictwo n
- Portuguese: xilografia (pt) f
- Russian: ксилогра́фия (ru) f (ksilográfija)
- Slovak: xylografia f, drevorytectvo n, drevorezba f
- Spanish: xilografía (es) f
- Swedish: träsnitt (sv) n
- Turkish: ksilografi (tr), ağaç baskısı (tr)
- Ukrainian: деревори́т m (derevorýt)
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