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Definition of Italic

1. Adjective. Characterized by slanting characters. "Italic characters"

2. Noun. A style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right.

3. Adjective. Of or relating to the Italic languages. "Ancient Italic dialects"

4. Noun. A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative.

5. Noun. A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right.

Definition of Italic

1. a. Relating to Italy or to its people.

2. n. An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

Definition of Italic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Italian peninsula. ¹

2. Adjective. (context linguistics) Pertaining to a subfamily of the w:Centum-Satem isogloss Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy and also the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, etc.); the group of ancient languages of this branch as contrasted with the modern Romance languages; w:Osco-Umbrian languages Osco-Umbrian ¹

3. Adjective. (context ancient history) Pertaining to various peoples that lived in Italy before the establishment of the Roman Empire, or to any of several alphabet systems used by those peoples for writing their languages. ¹

4. Proper noun. An Italic language. ¹

5. Adjective. (typography of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century. ¹

6. Adjective. (typography of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique. ¹

7. Noun. (typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right. ¹

8. Noun. An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Italic

1. a style of print [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Italic

itaconic itaconic acid ital italianate italianated italianates italianating italianise italianised italianises

italianising italianize italianized italianizes italianizing italic italicisation italicisations italicise italicised

italicises italicising italicization italicizations italicize italicized italicizes italicizing italick italics

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