TETRAGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tetragram mean? 

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

1. a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TETRAGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

written word (the written form of a word)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tetragram"):

Tetragrammaton (four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce)