Italic vs. Italics

Italicadjective

Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.

Italicadjective

Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.

Italicnoun

(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.

Italicnoun

An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.

Italicadjective

Relating to Italy or to its people.

Italicadjective

Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; - so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.

Italicnoun

An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); - often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

Italicnoun

a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right

Italicnoun

a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative

Italicnoun

a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

Italicadjective

characterized by slanting characters;

Italicadjective

of or relating to the Italic languages;

Italicadjective

relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.

Italicnoun

the Italic group of languages.

Italicsnoun

letters in an italic typeface.

Italicsnoun

(usually plural but sometimes singular in construction) italic: exaggerated intonation or some similar oral speech device by which one or more words is heavily and usually affectedly emphasized or otherwise given sharp prominence