Definition of diptych Diptych
dip•tych
We found 13 definitions of diptych from 5 different sources.
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What does diptych mean?
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NounPlural: diptyches |
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| diptych - a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book) |
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Wiktionary 
- diptych (Noun)
A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. - diptych (Noun)
A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges. - diptych (Noun)
A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church. - diptych (Noun)
A catalogue of saints. - diptych (Noun)
Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence transferred to a list of magistrates. - diptych (Noun)
A. a literary work consisting of two contrasting parts as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view "a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ ... first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus" -- François Closset b. any work made up of two matching parts treating complementary or contrasting pictorial phases of one general topic "the first volume of a diptych Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert" -- F. E. Egler.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- diptych (n.)
Anything consisting of two leaves. - diptych (n.)
A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. - diptych (n.)
A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych. - diptych (n.)
A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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diptych
dip′tik, n. a double-folding writing-tablet: a register of bishops, saints, &c. read aloud during the eucharist: a pair of pictures as folding-tablets. [Gr. diptychos—di-, and ptyssein, to fold.]
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🔤- diptych, noun, singular of diptychs.
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