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IDEOGRAPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ideography mean?
• IDEOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun IDEOGRAPHY has 1 sense:
1. the use of ideograms in writing
Familiarity information: IDEOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of ideograms in writing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ideography" is a kind of...):
orthography; writing system (a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols)
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