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logogram|ˈlɒgəgræm|
[f. Gr. λόγο-ς word + -gram.
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.
1820Heber Let. 1 Apr. in Life (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? 1862H. 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.
1840I. Pitman Man. Phonography §159 (1845) 46 The hooked vr is used as a logogram for very. 1870― Phonet. Man. 126 The following ingenious exercise is composed entirely of Logograms.
b. Philol. A symbol or character used, alone or in combination, as the graphic representation of a whole word as a single letter.
1933L. Bloomfield Lang. 287 The Egyptians..represented words not always by one symbol, but also by various arrangements of logograms. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 360 Akkadian as written contains many Sumerian logograms. 1963Bloomfield & 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.
1966Sunday Times 27 Feb. 11/2 Labour's original badge..has progressively turned into what the trade calls a logogram.
Hence logograˈmmatic a., pertaining to logograms (sense 1).
1820Heber Let. 1 Apr. in Life (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. |