Syllabary

3 definitions found

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

  Syllabary \Syl"la*ba*ry\, n.
     A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the
     indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as
     the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. --S. W.
     Williams.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  syllabary
       n : a writing system whose characters represent syllables [syn:
           {syllabic script}]

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

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "syllabary":
     IPA, ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet,
     International Phonetic Alphabet, alphabet, alphabetics, art,
     blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography,
     conventional representation, dance notation, delineation,
     demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing,
     exemplification, figuration, futhark, graphemics, hieroglyphic,
     iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, letter,
     letters, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation,
     notation, paleography, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture,
     portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection,
     realization, rendering, rendition, representation, runic alphabet,
     schema, score, script, symbol, tablature, writing,
     writing system