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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Greek
Origin: idea ( IDEA) + English -gram

ideogram

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics
id‧e‧o‧gram also id‧e‧o‧graph [countable]
SL a written sign, for example in Chinese, that represents an idea or thing rather than the sound of a word
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