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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a graphic character used in picture writing

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin pictus + English -o- + -graph Date: 1851 1. an ancient or prehistoric drawing or painting on a rock wall 2. one of the symbols belonging to a pictorial graphic system 3. a diagram representing statistical data by pictorial forms • pictographic adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also pictogram) 1 a a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. b an ancient record consisting of these. 2 a pictorial representation of statistics etc. on a chart, graph, etc. Derivatives: pictographic adj. pictography n. Etymology: L pingere pict- paint

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pictograph Pic"to*graph, n. [See Picture, and -graph.] A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea. -- Pic`to*graph"ic, a.

Moby Thesaurus

arrowhead, character, cuneiform, demotic character, determinative, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, ogham, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, radical, rune, shorthand, wedge, word letter