Definitions for pictography

pictography pic·tog·ra·phy

Spelling: [pik-tog-ruh-fee]
IPA: /pɪkˈtɒg rə fi/

Pictography is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 728 anagrams from letters in pictography (acghiopprty).

Definitions for pictography

noun

  1. the use of pictographs; picture writing.

Origin of pictography

1850-55; pictograph + -y3; see -graphy

Examples for pictography

According to John Tanner, the symbol for the lightning in Ojibway pictography was a rattlesnake.

pictography here records, that certain clans had killed bears and taken human scalps before that time.

From pictography it is but an easy step to hieroglyphics like those used by ancient peoples.

It is not a difficult task to distinguish the pictography of these two peoples, wherever found.

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