Pictograph Definition

pĭktə-grăf
pictographs
noun
A picture or picturelike symbol representing an idea, as in primitive writing; hieroglyph.
Webster's New World

Pictography.

Webster's New World
A pictorial representation of numerical data or relationships, especially a graph, but having each value represented by a proportional number of pictures.
American Heritage
A diagram or graph using pictured objects to convey ideas, information, etc.
Webster's New World

A graphic character.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Pictograph

Noun

Singular:
pictograph
Plural:
pictographs

Origin of Pictograph

  • Latin pictus past participle of pingere to paint peig- in Indo-European roots –graph

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pictograph Sentence Examples

  • Go to my interactive webpage to make a pictograph online.

  • Written language was largely hierographic and heroic. The drama, the cult image, the pictograph, the synecdochic picture, the ideaglyph, were steps in a progress without a break.

  • So also if Kaf corresponds to the Babylonian Kappu, " hollow-hand," the Sabaean form which Hommel5 interprets as the outline of the hand with the fingers turned in and the thumb raised is a better pictograph than the various meaningless forms of k (&c.).

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Words Starting With

PPIPIC

Words Ending With

HPHAPH

Unscrambles

pictograph

Words Starting With P and Ending With H

Starts With P & Ends With HStarts With PI & Ends With HStarts With P & Ends With PH

Word Length

10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With P10 Letter Words Ending With H