单词 | letterword |
释义 | > as lemmasletterword letterword n. a runic symbol or ideograph representing both a word and a single letter; (also) a word wholly or partly consisting of letters used as abbreviations, an initialism. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > character representing a word per se1596 monogram1801 word-sign1842 word-symbol1852 word-type1866 letterword1927 logogram1933 1845 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. (ed. 7) §30 19 Grammalogue, a letter-word; a word represented by a logogram. 1927 J. Joyce Let. 2 Mar. (1957) I. 250 A Chinese student sent me some letterwords I had asked for. The last one is ?. It means ‘mountain’ and is called ‘Chin’. 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 299 A type of word which has become very popular in modern times is the so-called letter word: the initial letters or syllables of a series of words are so put together as to supply a new unit. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 519 A manuscript containing the poem..of King Alfred's time..which describes in verse each runic letter-word. 2000 L. Sercu Acquiring Intercultural Communicative Competence from Textbks. v. 206 When prompted with ARD or ZDF, pupils in year 6 were not always able to recognise the letterwords as referring to German television channels. < as lemmas |
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