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Pictogram - What does it mean?

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pictogram

Alternative forms

* pictogramme (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.
  • Usage notes

    Strictly speaking, a pictogram'' represents by illustration, an ''ideogram'' represents an idea, and a ''logogram'' represents a word: Chinese characters are all logograms, but few are pictograms or ideograms. Casually, ''pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.

    Synonyms

    * pictograph * hieroglyph

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.