rebus
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
rebus (plural rebuses)
- A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
- (heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.
- (word puzzle) dingbat
- French: rébus
- German: Bilderrätsel, Rebus
- Italian: rebus
- Portuguese: rébus
- Russian: ре́бус
- Spanish: jeroglífico
rebus (rebuses, present participle rebusing; past and past participle rebused)
- (transitive) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
- He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.
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