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PICTURE WRITING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does picture writing mean?
• PICTURE WRITING (noun)
The noun PICTURE WRITING has 1 sense:
1. a writing system using pictographs
Familiarity information: PICTURE WRITING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A writing system using pictographs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("picture writing" is a kind of...):
orthography; writing system (a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols)
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