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geoglyph

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiːə(ʊ)ɡlɪf/
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  • General-American: /ˈd͡ʒiːəɡlɪf/
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noun

Meaning 1

A large-scale drawing or image made on the ground by arranging lines of stones, scratching the earth, etc., and often only fully visible from a distance or the air.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: crop circle

History

Etymology

From geo- (“the Earth; geography”) + glyph (“figure carved in relief or incised”), modelled after petroglyph.

Across languages

Translations

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: գեոգլիֆ (geoglif) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Azerbaijani: geoqlif — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Belarusian: гео́гліф (hjeóhlif) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Catalan: geoglif — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地畫 /地画 — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地面圖形 /地面图形 — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Chinese Mandarin: 地表巨畫 /地表巨画 — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Czech: geoglyf — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Danish: geoglyf — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Dutch: geoglief — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Estonian: geoglüüf — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Finnish: geoglyfi — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • French: géoglyphe — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Galician: xeóglifo — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Georgian: გეოგლიფი (geoglipi) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • German: Geoglyph — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • German: Geoglyphe — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Greek: γεωγλυφικό (geoglyfikó) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Greek: γεώγλυφο (geóglyfo) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Hebrew: גאוגליף — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Hungarian: geoglifa — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Italian: geoglifo — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Japanese: 地上絵 (chijōe) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Japanese: ジオグリフ — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Kazakh: геоглиф (geoglif) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Korean: 지상화 (jisanghwa) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Lithuanian: geoglifas — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Macedonian: геоглиф (geoglif) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Norwegian Bokmål: geoglyf — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: geoglyf — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Polish: geoglif — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Portuguese: geoglifo — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Portuguese: geóglifo — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Russian: гео́глиф (geóglif) — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Serbo-Croatian: геоглиф — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Serbo-Croatian: geoglif — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Spanish: geoglifo — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Swedish: geoglyf — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Turkish: jeoglif — large-scale drawing on the ground
  • Ukrainian: геогліф (heohlif) — large-scale drawing on the ground
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