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ICONOGRAPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does iconography mean?
• ICONOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun ICONOGRAPHY has 1 sense:
1. the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
Familiarity information: ICONOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Context example:
the propagandistic iconography of a despot
Hypernyms ("iconography" is a kind of...):
icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
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