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单词 logogram
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logogramn.

Brit. /ˈlɒɡəɡram/, U.S. /ˈloʊɡəˌɡræm/
Etymology: < Greek λόγος word + -gram comb. form. In sense 1 substituted (owing to association with anagram, lipogram, etc.) for logograph, which in this sense is itself a mistake for logogriph.
1. = logogriph n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles
riddleOE
logogriph1598
rebus1605
name-device1631
telesticha1637
lipogram1711
charade1776
conundrum1790
logogram1820
anagrams?1860
acrostic1861
metagram1867
word square1867
verbarian1872
jumble-letters1899
word ladder1928
Double-Crostic1934
word search1957
hangman1961
1820 R. Heber Let. 1 Apr. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) II. 19 If you are not much in the habit of composing logograms, you can hardly conceive how many words a single well-chosen noun may be coaxed into. For instance, how many are there in steam-boat?
1862 H. B. Wheatley (title) Of Anagrams,..Lipograms, Chronograms, Logograms, Palindromes.
2.
a. A sign or character representing a word; in Phonography, a word-letter; a single stroke which, for brevity's sake, represents a word.
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society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > shorthand symbol
discrete1620
logogram1840
grammalogue1845
phraseogram1847
outline1850
phonogram1864
logograph1888
tachygraph1965
1840 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. §159 (1845) 46 The hooked vr is used as a logogram for very.
1870 I. Pitman Phonet. Man. 126 The following ingenious exercise is composed entirely of Logograms.
b. Philology. A symbol or character used, alone or in combination, as the graphic representation of a whole word as a single letter.
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society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > character representing a word
per se1596
monogram1801
word-sign1842
word-symbol1852
word-type1866
letterword1927
logogram1933
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 287 The Egyptians..represented words not always by one symbol, but also by various arrangements of logograms.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 360 Akkadian as written contains many Sumerian logograms.
1963 M. W. Bloomfield & L. Newmark Ling. Introd. Hist. Eng. ii. 35 Mesopotamian and Egyptian peoples developed a rebus technique by which signs for whole words (logograms) could be put together to form longer words.
c. gen. A symbol, as found in road-signs, advertising, &c., designed to represent in simple graphic form an object, concept, or attitude.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > logogram
logo1937
logotype1957
logogram1966
1966 Sunday Times 27 Feb. 11/2 Labour's original badge..has progressively turned into what the trade calls a logogram.

Derivatives

logograˈmmatic adj. pertaining to logograms (sense 1).
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [adjective] > relating to other word puzzles
acrostic1585
logogriphic1814
logogrammatic1820
1820 R. Heber Let. 1 Apr. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) II. 19 The whimsical contrast which this logogrammatic Berserksgangr presented to the parallel exploit of Coleridge, who wrote his Kubla-Khan under the effects of opium.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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