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Definition of "ideography" []

  • The representation of ideas by graphic symbols. (noun)
  • The use of ideograms to express ideas. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ideography" in a sentence
  • "But to construct a sentence by means of pure ideography is impossible."
  • "The first stage is "ideography," or mere picture-writing, in which a man stands for a man, a ship for a ship, a camel for a camel, and so forth."
  • "Just as pictorial phonetism was evolved from ideography, or picture-writing, so was alphabetism evolved from pictorial phonetism."