pictograph
[pik-tuh-graf, -grahf]
noun
a pictorial sign or symbol.
a record consisting of pictorial symbols, as a prehistoric cave drawing or a graph or chart with symbolic figures representing a certain number of people, cars, factories, etc.
Origin of pictograph
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Related Words for pictographic
descriptive, drawn, hieroglyphic, illustrated, illustrative, outlined, painted, photographic, pictorial, traced, visual, delineated, depicted, diagrammatic, etched, iconographic, illustrational, portrayed, representational, seenExamples from the Web for pictographic
Contemporary Examples of pictographic
Neither do his pictographic dramas have any resemblance to the covers from which his characters hail.
Historical Examples of pictographic
This writing is pictographic, and although not yet translated, appears to be a contract.
Archology and the BibleGeorge A. Barton
The figures could be duplicated in the work of the ancient Pueblos, and in the pictographic art of many of our savage tribes.
Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi ValleyWilliam H. Holmes
A pictographic painting--the Coat of Arms of the great family of Shewish hung upon the wall.
Indian Legends of Vancouver IslandAlfred Carmichael
The figure at the base of the pictographic painting represents the mammoth whale upon whose back the whole creation rests.
Indian Legends of Vancouver IslandAlfred Carmichael
The centre figure in the pictographic painting is a wolf grotesquely drawn.
Indian Legends of Vancouver IslandAlfred Carmichael
pictograph
noun
Word Origin for pictograph
C19: from Latin pictus, from pingere to paint
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