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Definition of Cryptogram
1. Noun. A piece of writing in code or cipher.
Generic synonyms: Piece Of Writing, Writing, Written Material
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
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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