WRITINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Writings mean? 

• WRITINGS (noun)
  The noun WRITINGS has 1 sense:

1. the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

  Familiarity information: WRITINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRITINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings

Instance hypernyms:

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "Writings"):

Book of Ruth; Ruth (a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died)

1 Chronicles; I Chronicles (the first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC)

2 Chronicles; II Chronicles (the second of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC)

Book of Ezra; Ezra (an Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity)

Book of Nehemiah; Nehemiah (an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity)

Book of Esther; Esther (an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre)

Book of Job; Job (a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply)

Book of Psalms; Psalms (an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalms)

Book of Proverbs; Proverbs (an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon))

Book of Ecclesiastes; Ecclesiastes (an Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BC)

Canticle of Canticles; Canticles; Song of Solomon; Song of Songs (an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later)

Book of Lamentations; Lamentations (an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah)

Book of Daniel; Book of the Prophet Daniel; Daniel (an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar)

Holonyms ("Writings" is a part of...):

Hebrew Scripture; Tanach; Tanakh (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)

 Context examples 

“But these writings, you know, that I speak of, are already drawn up and finished,” said Traddles after a little consideration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Having once recognized, however, that the symbols stood for letters, and having applied the rules which guide us in all forms of secret writings, the solution was easy enough.

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

It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.

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

Their work began years ago and, according to Blackburn, the location was chosen based on Plato’s writings as well as other texts.

(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses,—in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I don't think you have read ten pages of Spencer, but there have been critics, assumably more intelligent than you, who have read no more than you of Spencer, who publicly challenged his followers to adduce one single idea from all his writings—from Herbert Spencer's writings, the man who has impressed the stamp of his genius over the whole field of scientific research and modern thought; the father of psychology; the man who revolutionized pedagogy, so that to-day the child of the French peasant is taught the three R's according to principles laid down by him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day—as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Don't you think,” said Traddles, “you could copy writings, sir, if I got them for you?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In his right waistcoat-pocket we found a prodigious bundle of white thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked with black figures; which we humbly conceive to be writings, every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)