Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The representation of ideas by graphic symbols.
- noun The use of ideograms to express ideas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The direct representation of ideas by graphic signs. See
ideographic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The use of
ideograms . - noun
logography
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the use of ideograms in writing
Etymologies
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Examples
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But to construct a sentence by means of pure ideography is impossible.
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The first stage is "ideography," or mere picture-writing, in which a man stands for a man, a ship for a ship, a camel for a camel, and so forth.
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Just as pictorial phonetism was evolved from ideography, or picture-writing, so was alphabetism evolved from pictorial phonetism.
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Nevertheless, long usage has induced some degree of ideography and symbolism.
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Walter James Hoffman 1872
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Nevertheless, long usage has induced some degree of ideography and symbolism.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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"The" empty "hexagram, without crossing lines isn't used in Western ideography except as a form for a policeman's badge in Iceland and in certain states in the US (the sheriff's star)."
RenewAmerica 2009
qms commented on the word ideography
Old-timers used ASCII and coffe
Assembling slash and apostrophe.
Now digital fogies
They loathe mew emojis
As prefab unearned ideography.
November 25, 2017