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Blissymbols

Blissymbols proper noun: a constructed language with only a written form, using ideographs invented by Charles K. Bliss after the Second World War. Also the plural of Blissymbol.

Proper noun

Blissymbols

  1. A constructed language with only a written form, using ideographs invented by Charles K. Bliss after the Second World War.
    • In the 1970s, disabled people who couldn't write or speak—such as those with cerebral palsy—used Blissymbols to communicate by point to the drawings on a large board. It was time-consuming and required a person who knew Blissymbols to help translate.2020, Carla Sinclair, Girl Genius, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139
    Synonyms:
    Blissymbolics

Also used as

Blissymbols is also the plural of Blissymbol.

Synonyms of Blissymbols

Origin of Blissymbols

Blend of Bliss + symbols.

Questions about Blissymbols

What does Blissymbols mean?
Blissymbols means a constructed language with only a written form, using ideographs invented by Charles K. Bliss after the Second World War.
What part of speech is Blissymbols?
Blissymbols is a proper noun.

Words near Blissymbols in the dictionary

  1. blissoming
  2. blissoms
  3. blissy
  4. Blissymbol
  5. Blissymbolics
  6. Blissymbols
  7. blister
  8. blister agent
  9. blister agents
  10. blister beetle
  11. blister beetles

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