logogram
nounA written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation; for example, for 4 read “four” in English, “quattro” in Italian.
nounA word-sign; a single written character, or a combination of characters regarded as a unit, representing a whole word.
nounA versified puzzle containing synonyms of a number of words derived from a single word by recombining its letters, the solution depending upon the guessing of the derived words from the synonyms, and the discovery from the former of the original word.
nounA word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word. Cf.
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a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation