WRITE ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does write about mean? 

• WRITE ABOUT (verb)
  The verb WRITE ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. write about a particular topic

  Familiarity information: WRITE ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRITE ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write about a particular topic

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

write about; write of; write on

Context example:

Snow wrote about China

Hypernyms (to "write about" is one way to...):

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

You wanted to write, and you tried to write, and you had nothing in you to write about.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What can he write about, but yourself?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I am too wicked to write about myself!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The grey cub would have died, and there would have been no story to write about him, had not the she-wolf come bounding through the bushes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You must be a great deal too happy to care for Uppercross, which, as you well know, affords little to write about.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

P.S. On reading over my letter, it strikes me as rather Bhaery, but I am always interested in odd people, and I really had nothing else to write about.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For though Lady Bertram rather shone in the epistolary line, having early in her marriage, from the want of other employment, and the circumstance of Sir Thomas's being in Parliament, got into the way of making and keeping correspondents, and formed for herself a very creditable, common-place, amplifying style, so that a very little matter was enough for her: she could not do entirely without any; she must have something to write about, even to her niece; and being so soon to lose all the benefit of Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In that field, Adele, I was walking late one evening about a fortnight since—the evening of the day you helped me to make hay in the orchard meadows; and, as I was tired with raking swaths, I sat down to rest me on a stile; and there I took out a little book and a pencil, and began to write about a misfortune that befell me long ago, and a wish I had for happy days to come: I was writing away very fast, though daylight was fading from the leaf, when something came up the path and stopped two yards off me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Why, you're just on the edge of beginning to get something in you to write about.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nothing has happened to write about, except a call on Miss Norton, who has a room full of pretty things, and who was very charming, for she showed me all her treasures, and asked me if I would sometimes go with her to lectures and concerts, as her escort, if I enjoyed them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)