hi·er·o·glyph

(hī′ər-ə-glĭf′, hī′rə-)

1. A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writing.

2. Something that suggests a hieroglyph.

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Noun	1.	hieroglyph - writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) hieroglyphic writing - letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"
	2.	hieroglyph - a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt hieroglyphic orthography, writing system - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols hieratic, hieratic script - a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests

Translations

Hieroglyphe

hieroglyfi

hiéroglyphe

hieroglif

иероглиф

hieroglyph

[ˈhaɪərəglɪf] N → jeroglífico m

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hieroglyph

[ˈhaɪərəglɪf] n (= symbol) → hiéroglyphe m

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hieroglyph

n → Hieroglyphe f

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A hieroglyph," said the Rhetor, "is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol."

Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak.

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There is no one, not even the hermetics, who does not find in the symbols of the grand portal a satisfactory compendium of their science, of which the Church of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie was so complete a hieroglyph. Thus, the Roman abbey, the philosophers' church, the Gothic art, Saxon art, the heavy, round pillar, which recalls Gregory VII., the hermetic symbolism, with which Nicolas Flamel played the prelude to Luther, papal unity, schism, Saint-Germain des PrÃ©s, Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie,--all are mingled, combined, amalgamated in Notre-Dame.

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So I saw the stars close overhead, and the fishermen's torches far below, the coastwise lights and the crimson hieroglyph that spelt Vesuvius, before I plunged into the darkness of the shaft.

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Horne Fisher's fragmentary hints, though he had refused to expand them as yet, had stirred the artistic temperament of the architect to a sort of wild analysis, and he was resolved to read the hieroglyph upside down and every way until it made sense.

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Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses?

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