Definitions for pictographs

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pictographs pic·to·graph

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

IPA: /ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/

Pictographs is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1121 anagrams from letters in pictographs (acghiopprst).

Definitions for pictographs

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 pictographs

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

Examples for pictographs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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