MONOGRAM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does monogram mean? 

• MONOGRAM (noun)
  The noun MONOGRAM has 1 sense:

1. a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing

  Familiarity information: MONOGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("monogram" is a kind of...):

symbol (an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance)

 Context examples 

These fellows all wore the high white hats which were at that time much affected by the fancy, and they were armed with horse-whips, silver-mounted, and each bearing the P.C. monogram.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Of course you saw the ‘J.H.’ monogram on my locket,” said he.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are moving in high life, Watson, crackling paper, ‘E.B.’ monogram, coat-of-arms, picturesque address.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend’s noble correspondent could be.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)