ichnography
Syllables: ich·nog·ra·phyUK/ɪkˈnɒɡɹəfi/US/ɪkˈnɑɡɹəfi/
ichnography noun: the ground plan of a building.
Noun
ichnography (countable and uncountable, plural ichnographies)
- the ground plan of a building
- I think, quoth Corporal Trim, with humble submission to your Honour’s better judgment,——that these ravelins, bastions, curtins, and hornworks, make but a poor, contemptible, fiddle-faddle piece of work of it here upon paper, compared to what your Honour and I could make of it were we in the country...1659, Laurence Sterne, chapter XXX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- the art of constructing ground plans
Forms of ichnography
| plural | ichnographies |
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Origin of ichnography
From ichno- + -graphy.
Words formed from ichnography
Words that rhyme with ichnography
- geography
- choreography
- orthography
- topography
- chirography
- hagiography
- heliography
- phonography
- semiography
- acrography
- autography
- bibliography
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- cacography
- chromography
- demography
- discography
- iconography
- isography
- logography
- ludography
- metallography
- micrography
- paleography
- pantography
- pornography
- scenography
- typography
- videography
- aerography
- archaeography
- arteriography
- arthrography
- autobiography
- autohagiography
- biogeography
- biography
- cartography
- cerography
- chronography
- cinematography
- cosmography
- crystallography
- dactylography
- demonography
- dittography
- electrography
- enterography
- ethnography
- etymography
- exogeography
- fluorography
- galvanography
- glossography
- heterography
- historiography
- homography
- horologiography
- laryngography
- mechanography
- megalography
Questions about ichnography
- What does ichnography mean?
- Ichnography means the ground plan of a building.
- What part of speech is ichnography?
- Ichnography is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ichnography?
- Ichnography is pronounced /ɪkˈnɑɡɹəfi/ (US).
- What is the plural of ichnography?
- The plural of ichnography is ichnographies.
Words near ichnography in the dictionary
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