Definitions for pictograph

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pictograph pic·to·graph

Spelling: [pik-tuh-graf, -grahf]

IPA: /ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/

Pictograph is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 564 anagrams from letters in pictograph (acghiopprt).

Definitions for pictograph

noun

1. a pictorial sign or symbol.
2. a record consisting of pictorial symbols, as a prehistoric cave drawing or a graph or chart with symbolic figures representing a certain number of people, cars, factories, etc.

Origin of pictograph

1850-55; Latin pict(us) painted (see picture) + -o- + -graph

Examples for pictograph

Anyone could read a document written in this pictograph form, if he had ever seen the objects to which the pictures referred.

It is printed with a sort of movable type, and each character is a pictograph or hieroglyph.

For example, the pictograph for mouth combined with pictograph for vapour expressed words.

Fig. 211 is an Ojibwa pictograph taken from Schoolcraft, loc.

Then, he drew with painstaking care a series of diagrams that repeated the information in pictograph form.

The Ojibwa pictograph for sun is seen in Fig. 169, taken from Schoolcraft, loc.

Such a figure occurs in the pictograph under consideration, where it occupies the position of the head.

First, it is simply a representation of an object or a phenomenon, that is, a pictograph.

The pictograph cut into a rock or tree, or painted upon a buffalo-skin tent, was our only record of current or past events.

Fig. 214 is an Ojibwa pictograph found in Schoolcraft, I, pl.