Usually means: Symbolic figure or character representation.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word glyph:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. glyph: Merriam-Webster
  2. glyph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glyph: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glyph: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glyph: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glyph, glyph: Wordnik
  7. glyph: Wiktionary
  8. glyph: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. glyph: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Glyph, glyph: Dictionary.com
  11. glyph: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Glyph (archaeology), Glyph (data visualization), Glyph (disambiguation), Glyph (typography), Glyph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Glyph: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. glyph: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. glyph: Rhymezone
  16. Glyph: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. glyph: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. glyph: FreeDictionary.org
  19. glyph: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. glyph: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. glyph: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. -glyph: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. glyph: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. glyph: CCI Computer
  3. glyph: Encyclopedia
  4. Glyph: Unicode Glossary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glyph: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See glyphic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (glyph)

noun:  A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.
noun:  Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.
noun:  Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.
noun:  (typography, computing) A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
noun:  (architecture) A vertical groove.
noun:  A land snail of the genus Glyphyalinia
noun:  Any of various black-and-white noctuid moths with figural-like wing patterns, such as those in Protodeltote, Deltote, and Maliattha.

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