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hieroglyphic

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˌhaɪɹəˈɡlɪfɪk/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted ceghhiilopryStarts with HEnds with C0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols

Word origin

First coined 1726, from French hiéroglyphique, from Latin hieroglyphicus, from Ancient Greek ἱερογλυφικός (hierogluphikós), from ἱερογλυφέω (hierogluphéō, “to represent hieroglyphically”), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”) + γλύφω (glúphō, “to carve, to engrave, to cut out”). By surface analysis, hiero- + glyphic.

Used in a sentence

  • I must say, that, at the coronation, there was little vestige left as possible "of the charms that pleased a king." "She looked," Lady Mary Wortley said, "like an Egyptian mummy, wrought with hieroglyphics of gold."
  • The hieroglyphics or symbols, however, were reversed, just as though they had been pressed on wax.
  • the hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt

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