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hieroglyph

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hi·er·o·glyph  (hr--glf, hr-)
n.
1. A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writing.
2. Something that suggests a hieroglyph.
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Noun1.hieroglyphhieroglyph - 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
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Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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