hieroglyphics
pronunciation
How to pronounce hieroglyphics in British English:
UK [ˌhaɪərəˈglɪfɪks]
How to pronounce hieroglyphics in American English:
US [ˌhaɪərəˈɡlɪfɪkz]
Word Origin
- hieroglyphics (n.)
- 1580s, from Greek ta hieroglyphika; see hieroglyphic + -ics.
Example
- 1. In that respect it resembles a modern alphabet - unlike egyptian hieroglyphics , which use hundreds of symbols .
- 2. They are egyptian-style hieroglyphics , but ones that would be more recognizable to facebook users on tahrir square than the pharaohs .
- 3. Marcello a. canuto , director of tulane 's middle american research institute , examines hieroglyphics at the la corona dig site in guatemala
- 4. Here I am , stripped bare , in a town where the signs are strange , unfamiliar hieroglyphics , with no friends to talk to , in short , without any distraction .
- 5. At the time , no one in america could read hieroglyphics , but when professional egyptologists first saw facsimiles of smith 's papyrus , they recognised them as fragments from an ancient egyptian book of the dead that bore no relation to his translation .