"graffiti" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡɹəˈfiːti/ [UK], /ɡɹəˈfiti/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-graffiti.wav [Southern-England] Forms: graffiti [plural]
Rhymes: -iːti Etymology: Borrowed from Italian graffiti. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|graffiti}} Italian graffiti Head templates: {{en-noun|-|graffiti}} graffiti (usually uncountable, plural graffiti)
  1. (chiefly uncountable) Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Art, Crime Translations (drawings on a surface): графі́ці (hrafíci) [plural] (Belarusian), 塗鴉 (Chinese Mandarin), 涂鸦 (túyā) (Chinese Mandarin), graffiti [common-gender] (Danish), graffiti (Dutch), murskribaĉo (Esperanto), graffiti (Finnish), töhrintä (Finnish), graffiti [masculine] (French), graff [masculine] (French), graffiti [masculine, plural] (Galician), pintada [feminine] (Galician), Graffito [masculine, neuter] (German), Graffiti [masculine, neuter, plural] (German), veggjakrot [neuter] (Icelandic), graifítí [masculine] (Irish), graffitismo [masculine] (Italian), 落書き (rakugaki) (alt: らくがき) (Japanese), グラフィティ (gurafiti) (Japanese), 그래피티 (geuraepiti) (Korean), графи́ти (grafíti) [masculine, plural] (Macedonian), karawhiti (Maori), ग्राफिटी (grāphiṭī) [feminine] (Marathi), graffiti [masculine] (Polish), grafite [masculine] (Portuguese), pichação (Portuguese), grafito [masculine] (Portuguese), grafíti [masculine] (Portuguese), граффи́ти (graffíti) [neuter] (Russian), графити [masculine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), grafiti [masculine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), grafit [masculine] (Slovak), grafity [masculine, plural] (Slovak), grafiti (Spanish), graffiti [common-gender] (Swedish), klotter [neuter] (Swedish), grafiti (Turkish), графі́ті (hrafíti) [plural] (Ukrainian), וואַנט־שמירעכצן (vant-shmirekhtsn) [plural] (Yiddish), גראַפֿיטי (grafiti) [plural] (Yiddish), וואַנט־קאַטאָוועסן (vant-katovesn) [plural] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-graffiti-en-noun-q9jv5AMi Disambiguation of Art: 47 30 23 Disambiguation of Crime: 34 42 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 35 11 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 36 19 Disambiguation of 'drawings on a surface': 74 26
  2. (archaeology, countable) Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions. Tags: countable, usually Categories (topical): Archaeology, Crime
    Sense id: en-graffiti-en-noun-rJKXRDh6 Disambiguation of Crime: 34 42 25 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 36 19 Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cave painting [archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences], epigraphy [archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences], graffito Derived forms: cybergraffiti, digital graffiti, graffiti bomber, reverse graffiti, shoefiti Related terms: sgraffito

Verb

IPA: /ɡɹəˈfiːti/ [UK], /ɡɹəˈfiti/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-graffiti.wav [Southern-England] Forms: graffitis [present, singular, third-person], graffitiing [participle, present], graffitied [participle, past], graffitied [past]
Rhymes: -iːti Etymology: Borrowed from Italian graffiti. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|graffiti}} Italian graffiti Head templates: {{en-verb}} graffiti (third-person singular simple present graffitis, present participle graffitiing, simple past and past participle graffitied)
  1. (transitive) To mark a surface with such images. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Crime Related terms: graffiti art, graffiti artist, hip-hop, street art, tagging Translations (create graffiti): 漆鴉 (Chinese Mandarin), 漆鸦 (qīyā) (Chinese Mandarin), tehdä graffiti (Finnish), töhriä (Finnish), pichar (Portuguese), grafitar (Portuguese), grafitar (Spanish), måla graffiti (Swedish), klottra (english: when considered vandalism) (Swedish), bomba (english: cover in graffiti, tags) [slang, usually] (Swedish), grafiti yapmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-graffiti-en-verb-~mr3nPmG Disambiguation of Crime: 34 42 25 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 36 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: graffito

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "create graffiti",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.