Usually means: Puzzles using pictures to represent words.
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  1. rebuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. rebuses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rebuses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rebuses: Vocabulary.com
  5. rebuses: Wordnik
  6. rebuses: Wiktionary
  7. Rebuses, rebuses: Dictionary.com
  8. Rebuses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Rebuses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. rebuses: FreeDictionary.org
  11. rebuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rebuses: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rebus)

noun:  An arrangement of pictures, symbols, and/or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.
noun:  (linguistics) A pictographic component of a compound character (e.g. sinograph) used to hint at the pronunciation of the compound.
noun:  (specifically, heraldry) An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.
noun:  (crosswording) A type of crossword puzzle in which some squares contain entire words, or symbols representing words, instead of single letters.
verb:  To represent (a phrase or word) as a rebus.
verb:  To apply a rebus to (something).
▸ Also see rebus


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