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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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Dictionary Entry

iconographic

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/i‑kŏ‑nə‑ˈgraf‑ik/

Relating to the visual representation of subjects, especially in art or symbols; describing images that convey meaning.

In a Sentence

“The museum's guide used iconographic analysis to explain the symbolism in the ancient frescoes.”

Origin

From Greek eikōn ‘image’ + graphikos ‘pertaining to writing’, via French iconographique.

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Synonyms

pictorialillustrativevisualrepresentationalsymbolicgraphic

Antonyms

abstracttextualnonvisual

Related Words

iconographyiconiconoclasticonologypictographillustrationsymbolismrepresentation

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