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logographer

logographer noun: a chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.

Noun

logographer (plural logographers)

  1. a chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences
  2. one skilled in logography
  3. (Ancient Greece) Someone who made a speech on behalf of another, in a legal trial.

Forms of logographer

plurallogographers

Origin of logographer

From Ancient Greek λογογράφος (logográphos) + -er. By surface analysis, logo- + -grapher.

Questions about logographer

What does logographer mean?
Logographer means a chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
What part of speech is logographer?
Logographer is a noun.
What is the plural of logographer?
The plural of logographer is logographers.

Words near logographer in the dictionary

  1. logogrammic
  2. logograms
  3. logograph
  4. logographeme
  5. logographemes
  6. logographer
  7. logographers
  8. logographic
  9. logographical
  10. logographically
  11. logographies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: logographer (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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