Definitions for picture-writing

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Picture-Writing is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 643 anagrams from letters in picture-writing (-cegiiinprrttuw).

Definitions for picture-writing

noun

  1. the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
  2. pictorial symbols forming a record or communication.

Origin of picture-writing

First recorded in 1735-45

Examples for picture-writing

Their picture writing was scratched on stones or cut or painted on bark or wood.

picture writing also seems to have made its first appearance in this period.

Yet the people at that time could read their picture writing just as easily as we can the Alphabet writing.

"Why, this is what they call Injun picture writing," replied Red, obligingly.

It was common also among the Aztecs, but they used “picture writing.”

Every little mark had a meaning of its own in his experienced eyes, for he had seen much of this Indian picture writing.

The symbol for a priest in the early Egyptian picture writing was a jackal.

The art of picture writing was familiar to all these peoples.

Of course the Phœnicians brought the picture writing they had learned from the Egyptians with them.

Like everything else in that neighborhood, it was covered with picture writing.

Word Value for picture-writing
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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