Ideogram

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ideogram \I*de"o*gram\, n. [Ideo- + -gram; cf. F. id['e]ograme.]
     1. An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of
        hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.
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              Ideograms may be defined to be pictures intended to


              represent either things or thoughts.  --I. Taylor
                                                    (The
                                                    Alphabet).
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              You might even have a history without language
              written or spoken, by means of ideograms and
              gesture.                              --J. Peile.
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     2. A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1,
        2, 3, +, -, ?, $, ?, etc.
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     3. A phonetic symbol; a letter.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ideogram
       n : a graphic character used in ideography [syn: {ideograph}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "ideogram":
     allegory, alphabet, arrowhead, art, blueprint, character,
     charactering, characterization, charactery, chart, choreography,
     cipher, conventional representation, conventional symbol,
     cuneiform, dance notation, delineation, demonstration,
     demotic character, depiction, depictment, determinative, diagram,
     drama, drawing, emblem, exemplification, figuration, grammalogue,
     hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana,
     iconography, iconology, ideograph, illustration, imagery, imaging,
     kana, katakana, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, logotype,
     love knot, map, musical notation, notation, ogham, phonetic,
     phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, picturization, plan,
     portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing,
     projection, radical, realization, rendering, rendition,
     representation, rune, schema, score, script, shorthand, syllabary,
     symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology,
     tablature, token, totem, totem pole, type, wedge, word letter,
     writing