TEXTUAL MATTER
Dictionary entry overview: What does textual matter mean?
• TEXTUAL MATTER (noun)
The noun TEXTUAL MATTER has 1 sense:
1. the words of something written
Familiarity information: TEXTUAL MATTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TEXTUAL MATTER (noun)
Meaning:
The words of something written
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
text; textual matter
Context examples:
there were more than a thousand words of text / they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech / he wants to reconstruct the original text
Hypernyms ("textual matter" is a kind of...):
matter (written works (especially in books or magazines))
Meronyms (parts of "textual matter"):
word order (the order of words in a text)
book (a major division of a long written composition)
chapter (a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled)
foreword; preface; prolusion (a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book)
paragraph (one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line)
passage (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "textual matter"):
cookie (a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site)
language; lyric; words (the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number)
lipogram (a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabet)
line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)
letter; missive (a written message addressed to a person or organization)
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)
installment; instalment (a part of a published serial)
electronic text (text that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screen)
draft; draft copy (preliminary version of a written work)
copy; written matter (matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials)
Holonyms ("textual matter" is a part of...):
publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)
