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iconographies

iconographies is the plural of iconography.

Meaning of iconography

Noun

iconography (countable and uncountable, plural iconographies)

  1. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
    • The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024
  2. The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.
    • the iconography of the ancients
  3. The study of representative art in general.

Questions about iconographies

What is iconographies the plural of?
Iconographies is the plural of iconography.

Words near iconographies in the dictionary

  1. iconographer
  2. iconographers
  3. iconographic
  4. iconographical
  5. iconographically
  6. iconographies
  7. iconographist
  8. iconographists
  9. iconographs
  10. iconography
  11. iconolater

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Adapted from Wiktionary: iconographies (page history and authors); iconography (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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