Definition of Secret code

1. Noun. A secret method of writing.

Exact synonyms: Cipher, Cryptograph, Cypher
Generic synonyms: Code
Derivative terms: Cipher, Cypher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secret Code

secrecy
secrely
secreness
secres
secresy
secret-sacred
secret Santa
secret Santas
secret admirer
secret admirers
secret agent
secret agents
secret approval
secret ballot
secret code (current term)
secret of Polichinelle
secret plan
secret police
secret service
secret society
secret writing
secreta
secretage
secretagogue
secretagogues
secretaire
secretarial
secretarial school

Literary usage of Secret code

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"A company which invents and prepares a secret code or system of letters, figures, and characters, showing the cost and selling price of its wares and ..."

2. Illustrative Cases on Equity Jurisprudence by Harry Burns Hutchins, Robert Emmet Bunker (1903)
"... that It has Invented and prepared, at a cost of many thousand dollars, a secret code or system, represented by letters, figures, and characters, ..."

3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1894)
"... wrongfully and fraudulently obtained from said Meech the said privately marked catalogue, containing its secret code or system of letters, figures, ..."

4. The Bailey Controversy in Texas: With Lessons from the Political Life-story by William Alexander Cocke (1908)
"The name of each of these men is on the secret code of the Standard Oil Trust. When any legislation is pending which threatens, even remotely, the interests ..."

5. Science and Industry (1900)
"Thus, it is quite easy, even by using a code book, which can be purchased anywhere, to arrange a cipher or secret code. The ten letters may even be chosen ..."

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