Definitions for hieroglyphic

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hieroglyphic hi·er·o·glyph·ic

Spelling: [hahy-er-uh-glif-ik, hahy-ruh-]

IPA: /ˌhaɪ ər əˈglɪf ɪk, ˌhaɪ rə-/

Hieroglyphic is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 26 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 574 anagrams from letters in hieroglyphic (ceghhiilopry).

Definitions for hieroglyphic

noun

1. Also, hieroglyph. a hieroglyphic symbol.
2. Usually, hieroglyphics. hieroglyphic writing.
3. a figure or symbol with a hidden meaning.
4. hieroglyphics, handwriting, figures, characters, code, etc., difficult to decipher:

adjective

1. Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
2. inscribed with hieroglyphic symbols.
3. hard to decipher; hard to read.

Origin of hieroglyphic

1575-85; Late Latin hieroglyphicus Greek hieroglyphikós “pertaining to sacred writing.” See hiero-, glyph, -ic

Examples for hieroglyphic

But the Incas had no hieroglyphic or pictorial system of recording events.

Specimens of their hieroglyphic writings have been given in the preceding chapter.

I have left to the last the subject of the hieroglyphic inscriptions.

These months received each a name, and were of course designated by a hieroglyphic.

The hieroglyphic of this king is, in fact, an arrow striking heaven.

I was brought up to a farm life: it is surely no hieroglyphic to me.

Its hieroglyphic name is Ankh, and its signification is “to live.”

It's a long trail from the old plow factory to the hieroglyphic spring, Roger.

It has, apparently, but one hieroglyphic, or symbolic figure.

He adds that there is another like hieroglyphic, which, as it is not very important, he will pass over.