English dictionary

iconography

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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject

noun.artifact

Examples
Religious iconography.

The propagandistic iconography of a despot.

Source: WordNet 3.0
The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the <i>iconography</i> of the ancients.

noun

Source: webster1913