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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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hieroglyph

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun hieroglyph has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

hieroglyphn. [Cf. F. hiéroglyphe. See Hieroglyphic, a.].
  •  A sacred character; a character used in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hieroglyph, n.
1 a a picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as used in ancient Egyptian and other writing. b a writing consisting of characters of this kind.
2 a secret or enigmatic symbol.
3 (in pl.) joc. writing difficult to read.

Etymology
back-form. f. HIEROGLYPHIC
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