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# braille

noun (Braille or braille, uncountable); adjective (braille letters)

«braille» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A system of raised dots that blind and partly sighted people read by touching them with their fingers. Each letter is a pattern of up to six dots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/#m1)

### In the lessons

In lessons on disability, history and communication pupils learn that Louis Braille, a blind French boy, invented it in the 1820s. In everyday life braille appears on lift buttons, medicine boxes and signs. Phrases: "in braille", "read braille", "braille signs".

### Examples

- My aunt reads books in braille. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/#x1)
- The lift buttons have braille on them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/#x2)
- Louis Braille invented braille when he was a teenager. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/#x3)
- Each braille letter is made of up to six raised dots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/#x4)
- We wrote our names in braille using glue dots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/#x5)
- The medicine box has the name in braille. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/#x6)

### Note

Often written with a capital B because it is named after Louis Braille, but lower case "braille" is also common. Uncountable: "some braille", "in braille". Braille is not a language; it is a way of writing many languages.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «braille» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braille/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«braille» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/braille.html) on Mova free.