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Noun
ideogram (plural ideograms)
- A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.
- ✤ Synonyms: ideograph, semasiograph
- ✤ Coordinate terms: logogram, pictogram, pictograph, hieroglyph; logograph, lexigram, lexigraph
- ✤ I thought I would get a tattoo of a secret ideogram on my shoulder. [original: Pensé tatuarme un ideograma secreto en mi hombro.]1
- ✤ [original: Pensé tatuarme un ideograma secreto en mi hombro.]
Etymology
From ideo- + -gram.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/, /ˈaɪ.di.ə.ɡɹæm/
- (US) IPA: /ˈɪd.i.oʊ.ɡɹæm/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/
- Audio (Australian): 🔊
Printed 2026-06-28.
(echo:: @ ⌗)
Link to original Footnotes
2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99: ↩
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