ENGRAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does engraved mean? 

• ENGRAVED (adjective)
  The adjective ENGRAVED has 1 sense:

1. cut or impressed into a surface

  Familiarity information: ENGRAVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGRAVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut or impressed into a surface

Synonyms:

engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed

Context example:

engraved invitations

Similar:

carved; carven (made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary))

 Context examples 

On the stock was engraved ‘SS. Sea Unicorn, Dundee.’

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He brought up a card, too, with the name of ‘Colonel Lysander Stark’ engraved upon it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I'm sure I am," echoed Amy, poring over the engraved copy of the Madonna and Child, which her mother had given her in a pretty frame.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off her finger, and put it upon one of his.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The centre of the street door was perfectly covered with a great brass-plate, on which was engraved Mrs. Micawber's Boarding Establishment for Young Ladies: but I never found that any young lady had ever been to school there; or that any young lady ever came, or proposed to come; or that the least preparation was ever made to receive any young lady.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What the Admiralty was to me that day; what nonsense I made of our case in my mind, as I listened to it; how I saw DORA engraved upon the blade of the silver oar which they lay upon the table, as the emblem of that high jurisdiction; and how I felt when Mr. Spenlow went home without me (I had had an insane hope that he might take me back again), as if I were a mariner myself, and the ship to which I belonged had sailed away and left me on a desert island; I shall make no fruitless effort to describe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)