"boldface" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more boldface [comparative], most boldface [superlative]
Etymology: From bold + face. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bold|face}} bold + face Head templates: {{en-adj}} boldface (comparative more boldface, superlative most boldface)
  1. Synonym of boldfaced Synonyms: boldfaced [synonym, synonym-of] Derived forms: non-boldface Related terms: italic
    Sense id: en-boldface-en-adj-5mk6UcYi

Noun [English]

Forms: boldfaces [plural]
Etymology: From bold + face. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bold|face}} bold + face Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} boldface (countable and uncountable, plural boldfaces)
  1. (typography) A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Typography Translations (a font with thicker strokes): grasa tiparfasono (Esperanto), feitir stavir [masculine, plural] (Faroese), feitskrift [feminine] (Faroese), Fettschrift [feminine] (German), मोटे अक्षर (moṭe akṣar) (Hindi), grassetto [masculine] (Italian), жи́рный шрифт (žírnyj šrift) [masculine] (Russian), полужи́рный шрифт (polužírnyj šrift) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-boldface-en-noun-yl~IUoP1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Faroese translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 45 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 45 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 32 43 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 45 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 31 52 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Faroese translations: 32 49 19 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 27 51 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 36 46 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 29 52 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 26 54 20 Topics: media, publishing, typography

Verb [English]

Forms: boldfaces [present, singular, third-person], boldfacing [participle, present], boldfaced [participle, past], boldfaced [past]
Etymology: From bold + face. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bold|face}} bold + face Head templates: {{en-verb}} boldface (third-person singular simple present boldfaces, present participle boldfacing, simple past and past participle boldfaced)
  1. To print or write in a boldfaced font. Synonyms: bold#Verb, embolden#Verb Derived forms: unboldface
    Sense id: en-boldface-en-verb-rQeAgXKF Categories (other): English links with manual fragments

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.