Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ichnograph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ichno-graph
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The groundplan for a building.

Example Sentences

"Like modern conspiracy theorists Natali's characters turn towards the ichnograph for answers, they try to see the world from the perspective of God. Here, Natali confronts his characters with an ironic conundrum, namely that it was the attempt to see the world from the perspective of God that created the alien world in the first place."
"The analogy between the ichnograph - scenograph relation and the independent - dependent relation between God and particular minds clearly struck Leibniz as most beautiful and appropriate ."

Etymology

From ichno- + -graph.

Inflected Forms

ichnographs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

ichnography

Questions

What does ichnograph mean?: The groundplan for a building.
Where does ichnograph come from?: From ichno- + -graph.

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