Pictogram
Alternative forms
- pictogramme rare
Full definition of pictogram
Noun
pictogram
(plural pictograms)- A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.
Usage notes
Strictly speaking, a pictogram represents by illustration, an ideogram represents an idea, and a logogram represents a word: Chinese characters are all logograms, but few are pictograms or ideograms. Casually, pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.