written

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

   “Written language is a way of representing spoken language.”

2. (not-comparable)Having been written.

   “I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of write

   “Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?”

   “The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.”