Logogram

3 definitions found

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

  Logogram \Log"o*gram\, n. [Gr. lo`gos word + -gram.]
     A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity,
     represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf.
     {Grammalogue}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  logogram
       n : a single written symbol that represents an entire word or
           phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a
           logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and
           `nanatsu' in Japanese" [syn: {logograph}]

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

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "logogram":
     abuse of terms, acrostic, allegory, alphabet, amphibologism,
     amphiboly, anagram, arrowhead, art, blueprint, calembour,
     character, charactering, characterization, charactery, chart,
     choreography, cipher, conventional representation,
     conventional symbol, corruption, cuneiform, dance notation,
     delineation, demonstration, demotic character, depiction,
     depictment, determinative, diagram, drama, drawing, emblem,
     equivocality, equivoque, exemplification, figuration, grammalogue,
     hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana,
     iconography, iconology, ideogram, ideograph, illustration, imagery,
     imaging, jeu de mots, kana, katakana, letter, limning, logograph,
     logogriph, logotype, love knot, malapropism, map, metagram,
     missaying, musical notation, notation, ogham, palindrome,
     paronomasia, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph,
     picturization, plan, play on words, portraiture, portrayal,
     prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, pun, punning,
     radical, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, rune,
     schema, score, script, shorthand, spoonerism, syllabary, symbol,
     symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, tablature,
     token, totem, totem pole, type, wedge, word letter, wordplay,
     writing