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chronogram

chronogram noun: a sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.

Noun

chronogram (plural chronograms)

  1. A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.
  2. A phylogenetic tree that has branch spans proportional to evolutionary time.

chronogram meaning in Urdu and Kannada

chronogram in Urdu

chronogram
تاریخ tārīx

chronogram in Kannada

ಗುಪ್ತವರ್ಷ ಲೇಖ

Forms of chronogram

pluralchronograms

Origin of chronogram

From chrono- + -gram, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + γράμμα (grámma, “writing”).

Questions about chronogram

What does chronogram mean?
Chronogram means a sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.
What is chronogram in Urdu?
Chronogram in Urdu is تاریخ (tārīx). See Chronogram meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is chronogram?
Chronogram is a noun.
What is the plural of chronogram?
The plural of chronogram is chronograms.

Words near chronogram in the dictionary

  1. chronogeographic
  2. chronogeometric
  3. chronogeometrical
  4. chronogeometries
  5. chronogeometry
  6. chronogram
  7. chronogrammatic
  8. chronogrammatical
  9. chronogrammatically
  10. chronogrammatist
  11. chronogrammatists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chronogram (page history and authors); تاریخ (Urdu) (page history and authors); chronogram (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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