Definition of Cryptogram

1. Noun. A piece of writing in code or cipher.


Definition of Cryptogram

1. n. A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.

Definition of Cryptogram

1. Noun. (games) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cryptogram

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogram

cryptofascistic
cryptofascists
cryptogame
cryptogamic
cryptogamist
cryptogamists
cryptogamous
cryptogams
cryptogenic
cryptogenic cirrhosis
cryptogenic epilepsy
cryptogenic infection
cryptogenic pyaemia
cryptogenic septicaemia
cryptogram (current term)
cryptogrammatic
cryptogrammatically
cryptogramme
cryptograms
cryptograph
cryptographer
cryptographers
cryptographic
cryptographical
cryptographically
cryptographies
cryptographist
cryptographists
cryptographs

Literary usage of Cryptogram

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Trial of Sir John Falstaff: Wherein the Fat Knight is Permitted to by Asa Maxon Fritz Randolph (1893)
"—Killed by The Great cryptogram.—His Will. —Design for a Falstaff Monument.—Epitaphs ; Quotations to Choose from. THE late Llewellyn Jones, ..."

2. New Collected Rhymes by Andrew Lang (1905)
"Loves cryptogram. [The author (if he can be so styled) awoke from a restless sleep, with the first stanza of the following piece in his mind. ..."

3. Descriptive Catalogue of Books Contained in the Lending Library by Bishopsgate Institute, London, Charles William F. Goss (1901)
"... Bennett (AW) Introduction to the study of flowerless plants : their structure and classification cryptogram, The. By Verne (J.) ALSO LOOK UNDEB. ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"The cryptogram is full of " tips " from beginning to end. Look a little lower down. " Not as the Crow flieth, but as the Swallow ..."

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