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Definitions of hieroglyphic
  1. adjective
    resembling hieroglyphic writing

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  2. noun
    writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)

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  3. noun
    a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt

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

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Definition that contains hieroglyphic
  • young British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
  • hieroglyphic resembling hieroglyphic writing
  • hieroglyphic writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
  • hieroglyph writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
  • hieratic a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
  • rosetta stone a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics
  • hieratic script a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
  • thomas young British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
  • hieroglyphical resembling hieroglyphic writing
  • champollion Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)
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