Definitions for cuneiform

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cuneiform cu·ne·i·form

Spelling: [kyoo-nee-uh-fawrm, kyoo-nee-uh-]

IPA: /kyuˈni əˌfɔrm, ˈkyu ni ə-/

Cuneiform is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 412 anagrams from letters in cuneiform (cefimnoru).

Definitions for cuneiform

noun

1. cuneiform characters or writing.
2. a cuneiform bone.

adjective

1. having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
2. composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others.
3. written in cuneiform characters:
4. Anatomy. noting or pertaining to any of various wedge-shaped bones, as of the tarsus.

Origin of cuneiform

1670-80; Latin cune(us) a wedge + -i- + -form

Examples for cuneiform

He unfolds, and his cuneiform is seen to be that of a man-headed lion.

Keilschriften, p. 129; and the same author's cuneiform Inscrip.

In a vault underneath the building four cuneiform tablets were found.

About the universe which I inhabited I knew as little as I did about cuneiform writings.

It may have been practiced in the transcription of the cuneiform tablets.

The reading of the cuneiform legend offers but little difficulty.

Truly these cuneiform characters were strange and difficult to decipher!

The d of Dagon would be represented by d in cuneiform writing.

This account of Berosus is now confirmed by the cuneiform records.

The second and third may be most fitly described as cuneiform.