iconography
noun
symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
iconograph
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a word derived from
iconography.
Example Sentences
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This hieroglyph is therefore an iconograph, or representation.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by James King
