hieroglyph

«hieroglyph» in Mova's school dictionary: A picture or symbol used for writing, especially in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hieroglyph, hieroglyphs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A picture or symbol used for writing, especially in ancient Egypt, where little drawings of birds, eyes and other things stood for sounds or words. tree →

2) (informal) Writing that is very hard to read. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, children learn that the Rosetta Stone helped people read Egyptian hieroglyphs again. They write their names in hieroglyphs. The Maya of Central America also used glyphs. Phrases: Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Rosetta Stone.

examples

• Ancient Egyptians wrote with hieroglyphs. tree →
• The Rosetta Stone helped scholars read hieroglyphs. tree →
• Each hieroglyph can stand for a sound or an idea. tree →
• We wrote our names in hieroglyphs on paper scrolls. tree →
• Hieroglyphs were carved on the walls of tombs. tree →
• My brother's handwriting looks like hieroglyphs! tree →
• The first of the stories actually written down, were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or on Babylonian cakes of clay, three or four thousand years before our time. tree →

note

Countable. Also hieroglyphic (adjective, or noun mostly plural: hieroglyphics). Pronounced HY-ruh-glif. Myth: hieroglyphs are not only pictures of things; many stand for sounds.

In the corpora

• Egyptians also wrote with hieroglyphs, which nobody could read for over a thousand years until the Rosetta Stone gave the key.
• Hieroglyphs were Egyptian writing with hundreds of signs; some stood for sounds, like letters, and some for whole words.
• In 1822 Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to read hieroglyphs again.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hieroglyph» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.