Associations to the word «Rebus»

Wiktionary

REBUS, noun. A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
REBUS, noun. (heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.
REBUS, verb. (transitive) To mark or indicate by a rebus.

Dictionary definition

REBUS, noun. A puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne