Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to written words; consisting of characters or signs each of which singly represents a complete word.
- Pertaining to logography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to logography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, related to, or composed of
logographs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to logograms or logographs
Etymologies
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Examples
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This system he called logographic printing, -- logographic being a combination of two Greek words signifying word-writing.
Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money James Parton 1856
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The perfect book or speech obeys in every respect the pure and merciless laws of what has been called logographic necessity.
Charismatic Intellectual Leaders Steve Sailer 2005
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The perfect book or speech obeys in every respect the pure and merciless laws of what has been called logographic necessity.
Archive 2005-06-12 Steve Sailer 2005
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Such writing is "logographic" (symbols for words), and doesn't give the reader information on how to speak it, which is itself a great benefit, for then even people who speak different languages can utilize the same writing system and be able to communicate via it.
Scientific Blogging Mark Changizi 2010
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Such writing is "logographic" (symbols for words), and doesn't give the reader information on how to speak it, which is itself a great benefit, for then even people who speak different languages can utilize the same writing system and be able to communicate via it.
Scientific Blogging Mark Changizi 2010
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Such writing is "logographic" (symbols for words), and doesn't give the reader information on how to speak it, which is itself a great benefit, for then even people who speak different languages can utilize the same writing system and be able to communicate via it.
Scientific Blogging Mark Changizi 2010
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Such writing is "logographic" (symbols for words), and doesn't give the reader information on how to speak it, which is itself a great benefit, for then even people who speak different languages can utilize the same writing system and be able to communicate via it.
Scientific Blogging Mark Changizi 2010
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Displays on alphabetic and logographic writing systems.
Museums Post 2010
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Compare for example, our alphabetic scripts against the logographic picture style of the Chinese.
The History Of Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Thus Sumerian logographic signs, if used in Akkadian, would not convey the same exact meaning, while the same sign could, depending upon context, mean different words, a linguistic trait known as polyvalency.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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