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ideograph

[ id-ee-uh-graf, ahy-dee- ]

noun

  1. Rhetoric. an ordinary language term that, within a particular ideology, has developed a loose, flexible, nonspecific use that stands for values and ideas present within that ideology, rather than having a specific, concrete meaning:

    In the training materials, <leadership> is used as an ideograph to reinforce the military hierarchy.



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Other Words From

  • id·e·o·graph·ic [id-ee-, uh, -, graf, -ik, ahy-dee-], id·e·o·graph·i·cal adjective
  • id·e·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
  • un·id·e·o·graph·ic adjective
  • un·id·e·o·graph·i·cal adjective
  • un·id·e·o·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ideograph1

First recorded in 1825–35; ideo- + -graph
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Example Sentences

Chinese takeaways included writing systems of Chinese ideographs, philosophies such as Confucianism, religions such as Buddhism, medical techniques such as acupuncture, literary classics, martial arts and more.

The ideograph, in Japanese brush painting, is finding “How do you do a whole bamboo forest in three brush strokes?”

The Chinese ideograph for the female “I,” Maxine Kingston says, means slave.

These imaginary ideographs sometimes incorporated snippets of streamlined nature imagery from Green’s black-and-white paintings and were generally rendered in black on a single-hued background.

“The emoji themselves are ideographs, one of the most ancient ways to communicate,” she said.

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