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Definition of Hieroglyph
1. Noun. Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible).
2. Noun. A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt.
Generic synonyms: Orthography, Writing System
Specialized synonyms: Hieratic, Hieratic Script
Derivative terms: Hieroglyphical, Hieroglyphic
Definition of Hieroglyph
1. n. A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
Definition of Hieroglyph
1. Noun. An element of an ideographic (hieroglyphic) writing system. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hieroglyph
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hieroglyph
Literary usage of Hieroglyph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht by Arthur Cruttenden Mace, Herbert Eustis Winlock (1916)
"6 The staff as a hieroglyph II! ! I _er* 11 a \ _ne^ l 1 So far we have confined
... As a hieroglyph the bent staff is common enough, though occasionally ..."
2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"No, that was one of the little bone tableaux, a field mouse's dried bones splayed
in an anatomically correct mystic hieroglyph. Marci hauled him away, ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock (1879)
"... from one of the tombs near Memphis, and was engraved in memory of a personage
who acted as superintendent of the building of the Hieroglyph of pyramid. ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1910)
"The first sign is probably K; compare the third picture on page 7a with its
hieroglyph; the second is C's hieroglyph with an Akbal appropriate to it; ..."
5. History of Art in Sardinia, Judæa, Syria, and Asia Minor by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1890)
"Hence some of these images, despite awkward manipulation, bear a lifelike FIG.
255.—Hittite hieroglyph. Actual size. St. Elme Gautier. ..."
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