STENOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stenography mean? 

• STENOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun STENOGRAPHY has 2 senses:

1. a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system

2. the act or art of writing in shorthand

  Familiarity information: STENOGRAPHY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STENOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

shorthand; stenography; tachygraphy

Hypernyms ("stenography" is a kind of...):

hand; handwriting; script (something written by hand)

Derivation:

stenographer (someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation))

stenographical (of or relating to or employing stenography)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act or art of writing in shorthand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("stenography" is a kind of...):

handwriting (the activity of writing by hand)

Derivation:

stenographer (someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation))

stenographic; stenographical (of or relating to or employing stenography)

 Context examples 

Now to the historical, for as Madam Mina write not in her stenography, I must, in my cumbrous old fashion, that so each day of us may not go unrecorded.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)