ICONOGRAPHY

Definitions: ICONOGRAPHY

ICONOGRAPHY

Noun

1. The study of representative art in general.

2. The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ICONOGRAPHY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Iconography \I`co*nog"ra*phy\, noun. [Greek expression sketch or description; e'ikw`n an image to describe: compare to the French expression iconographie.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: ICONOGRAPHY

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Representation	Noun: representation, representment; imitation; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting; sculpture; engraving; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Iconography

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In art history, iconography is the study of the conventional meanings of iconographic art, which is art that is meant to convey some doctrine or traditional story. The iconographer identifies the saints represented on cathedral windows, for example, by noting the tools or animals that were included in the pictures specifically for the sake of identification.

In Eastern Orthodoxy, the church has established an extensive set of rules and guidelines to be used for writing icons, both in general and for particular icons. (Quick note on word usage: icons are not "painted", they are "written." They are also "read" by the viewer, rather than just viewed.) Because the icons communicate theological truth, they are often just as careful to write icons correctly as they would be to compose written doctrines and dogmas. Eastern Orthodox theologians often find it useful to "quote from" or refer to a particular icon when making a point, just as they might cite a document written by an earlier theologian or council. The responsibility of writing icons is often carried out by monks. A saint must be canonized by a synod of bishops before icons of the saint can be written and put into use.

Iconography is also used to refer to the archetypical scenes and characters used in representation. For example, in films of the genre "Westerns", such tropes as "cattle drive", "saloon", "gunfight", "gunfighter", "sheriff" constantly recur.

See also: Icon, Tarot

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Iconography."

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Crosswords: ICONOGRAPHY

English words defined with "ICONOGRAPHY": Christian iconography ♦ Iconographic, Iconology, Iconophilist. (references)

Etymologies containing "ICONOGRAPHY": Iconograph. (references)

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Modern Usage: ICONOGRAPHY

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Iconography of Venus (1987)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ICONOGRAPHY

Domain	Title
Books	Iconography (reference) Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 27) (reference) Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (Uppsala Studies in History of Science, 29) (reference) Oracles and demons of Tibet : the cult and iconography of the Tibetan protective deities (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ICONOGRAPHY

"ICONOGRAPHY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ICONOGRAPHY" is used about 91 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	91	34,491

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ICONOGRAPHY

Expression using "ICONOGRAPHY": Christian iconography. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ICONOGRAPHY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
iconography	61
iconography mayan	5
byzantine iconography	4
fascist iconography	3
buddhist iconography	3
christian iconography	3
iconography orthodox	3
iconography religious	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ICONOGRAPHY

Language		Translations for "ICONOGRAPHY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ikonografi. (various references)

Arabic		‏الأ يقنة صناع التماثيل. (various references)

Bulgarian		иконография, илюстрация (figure, illustration, instance). (various references)

Czech		ikonografie. (various references)

Danish		ikonografi. (various references)

Dutch		iconografie. (various references)

Farsi		پیکرنگار (Painter). (various references)

French		iconographie, iconographe. (various references)

German		ikonographie, Bilderkunde, Bilderbeschreibung. (various references)

Greek		εικονογραφία (illustration). (various references)

Hungarian		ikonográfia. (various references)

Italian		iconografia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		図像学 , イギリス帝国 (British Empire, equal, equal opportunity, equal partner, equalizer, equipment, icon, igloo, ignition key, iguana, Islam, Israel, Istanbul, salmon roe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ずぞうがく, イコノグラフィー . (various references)

Pig Latin		iconographyay.(various references)

Portuguese		iconografia (icteric), iconoclasta. (various references)

Romanian		iconografie. (various references)

Russian		иконография. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ikonografija. (various references)

Spanish		iconografía. (various references)

Swedish		ikonografi. (various references)

Turkish		resmetme, resimleme. (various references)

Ukranian		іконографія. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự mô tả bằng tranh, sự mô tả bằng hình tượng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ICONOGRAPHY

Misspellings
	"ICONOGRAPHY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: icongraphy, iconograghy, iconographie, iconogrophy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ICONOGRAPHY"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ICONOGRAPHY" (pronounced ī'kunÄ"grufē)
8	-u n Ä" g r u f ē	oceanography.
7	-n Ä" g r u f ē	pornography.
6	-Ä" g r u f ē	astrophotography, autobiography, bibliography, biography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, crystallography, demography, geography, hagiography, historiography, lithography, mammography, orthography, photography, phytogeography, polarography, radiography, topography, typography.
5	-g r u f ē	calligraphy, discography.
4	-r u f ē	apostrophe, atrophy, catastrophe, dystrophy.
3	-u f ē	philosophy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: ICONOGRAPHY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-r-y"
	-2 letters: hooraying.
	-3 letters: hyponoia, parching, picaroon, poaching, pooching, prochain, roaching.
	-4 letters: aphonic, arching, carping, chagrin, charing, charpoy, choragi, choring, chorion, ciphony, cooping, copying, craping, cyprian, graphic, gryphon, harping, harpoon, hooping, hypoing, ochring, organic, pignora, pogonia, poohing, porcino, praying.
	-5 letters: aching, agonic, anchor, archon, arcing, cairny, canopy, carhop, caring, chirpy, chopin, cooing, coping, coprah, coring, corona, coying, crayon, crying, garcon, gonoph, grainy, grinch, haring, harpin, haying, hooray, hoping, hyping, hypnic, inarch, oaring, onagri, oohing, orangy, orgiac, origan, orphan, orphic, pacing, painch, paring, paying, phonic, picaro, piracy, poachy, poncho, poring, prying, racing, racoon, rancho, raping, raying, roping.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-r-y"
	+4 letters: cholangiography, gynandromorphic, phonogramically.
	+5 letters: iconographically, phonogrammically, phonographically, pornographically.
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