Synonyms for picture writing


Grammar : Noun


Définition of picture writing

  • noun expression by pictures
Example sentences :
  • Like everything else in that neighborhood, it was covered with picture writing.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • "Why, this is what they call Injun picture writing," replied Red, obligingly.
  • Extract from : « Pathfinder » by Alan Douglas
  • The art of picture writing was familiar to all these peoples.
  • Extract from : « The Annals of the Cakchiquels » by Daniel G. Brinton
  • It was common also among the Aztecs, but they used “picture writing.”
  • Extract from : « Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology » by John D. Baldwin
  • The symbol for a priest in the early Egyptian picture writing was a jackal.
  • Extract from : « Plain English » by Marian Wharton
  • Picture writing also seems to have made its first appearance in this period.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Society » by Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Every little mark had a meaning of its own in his experienced eyes, for he had seen much of this Indian picture writing.
  • Extract from : « The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio » by Harrison Adams
  • Their picture writing was scratched on stones or cut or painted on bark or wood.
  • Extract from : « Jersey City and its Historic Sites » by Harriet Phillips Eaton
  • Yet the people at that time could read their picture writing just as easily as we can the Alphabet writing.
  • Extract from : « Ciphers For the Little Folks » by Dorothy Crain
  • So the writing they brought to Greece was quite different from the picture writing they had learned from the Egyptians.
  • Extract from : « Ciphers For the Little Folks » by Dorothy Crain

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