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Cryptogram

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A piece of writing in code or cipher. Also called cryptograph.

n. A figure or representation having a secret or occult significance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A cipher writing. Same as cryptograph.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A message or writing in secret characters or otherwise occult; a cryptograph.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a piece of writing in code or cipher

Word Usage

"The slave hunters in fact belonged to the dregs of society, and we shall not be far wrong in assuming that the man with the cryptogram was a fitting comrade for his fellow “capitaes do mato.”"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

piece of writing writing written material

Variant

cryptograph

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