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Meanings of hieroglyphs in English

Russian
иероглифика
Portuguese
hieroglifos
Catalan
jeroglífics
Spanish
jeroglifico

Pictographic sign.

иероглифика
Synonyms
Examples for "hieroglyph"
Examples for "hieroglyph"
1
The morose moon started up, a tragic hieroglyph in the passionless sky.
Visionaries
2
To her, the word was a hieroglyph, letters and shapes without meaning.
The Irish Times
3
Before she could explain, Carter drew a simple hieroglyph of a bird.
The red pyramid
4
Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak.
War and Peace
5
I waited for something to blow up, but the hieroglyph simply faded.
The red pyramid
Usage of hieroglyphs in English
1
On the ordered plains were traced the hieroglyphs of the faceted world.
The Metal Monster
2
The Washington Monument began to glow as hieroglyphs appeared along its sides.
The red pyramid
3
I can read the hieroglyphs, and I am always young and cheerful.
Bella Donna: A Novel
4
But no verifiable mention of the hieroglyphs was made before the 1970s.
News.com.au
5
It enveloped itself in new hieroglyphs, concealed its efforts, disguised its hopes.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
6
The hieroglyphs are proving much harder to decipher than I first imagined.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
7
Taurt handed her a small linen pouch with hieroglyphs embroidered on it.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
8
I 'd give a good deal to know what those hieroglyphs mean.
The Paternoster Ruby
9
In the center was a console over which metallic-hued Forerunner hieroglyphs swarmed.
Ghosts of Onyx
10
The blade was a dark steel crescent on which hieroglyphs were visible.
Drood: a novel
11
Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses?
Middlemarch
12
Early Egyptian hieroglyphs recorded religious and state propaganda and bureaucratic accounts.
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
13
Writing in hieroglyphs revived to hide the true meaning of the doctrine, 732-l.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
14
We take the hieroglyphs from the left-hand side of the inscription.
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
15
For the hieroglyphs on the jewelled sarcophagus speak of him thus and say:-
Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul
16
Apparently, my particular brand of insanity only applied to regular hieroglyphs.
The red pyramid