A character or cypher composed of one, two or more letters interwoven, being an abbreviation of a name; used on seals, etc.
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1. A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.
2. A picture in lines; a sketch.
3. An arbitrary sign for a word.
Sketching in the manner of a monogram.
See Monogrammic.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.
Secret Roget’s Thesaurus §533
N. secret, dead secret, profound secret, # arcanum, mystery, latency, asian mystery, sealed book, secrets of the prison house, le desous des cartes, enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus, logogriph, monogram, anagram, sphinx, crux criticorum, maze, labyrinth, hyrcynian wood, intricacy, meander, problem, paradox, unintelligibility, terra incognita
Representation Roget’s Thesaurus §554
N. representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, x-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, tv image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit tv, copy, drawing, sketch, draught, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan) 626, ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram
V. represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature
Adj. represent, representing, representative, *illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento
Letter Roget’s Thesaurus §561
N. letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, abc, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic
V. spell
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