ALL meanings of ogham
og·ham
O o - noun ogham An ancient British and Irish alphabet, consisting of twenty characters formed by parallel strokes on either side of or across a continuous line. 1
- noun ogham an alphabetical script used originally for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish, from about the 5th to the 10th centuries. 1
- noun ogham any of the 20 characters of this script, each consisting of one or more strokes for consonants and of notches for vowels cut across or upon a central line on a stone or piece of wood. 1
- noun ogham an inscription employing this script. 1
- noun ogham an ancient alphabetical writing system used by the Celts in Britain and Ireland, consisting of straight lines drawn or carved perpendicular to or at an angle to another long straight line 0
- noun ogham an alphabetic system for writing Old Irish, developed in the 5th and 6th cent. a.d., in which the letters are represented by various combinations of lines or notches as carved along the edge of a memorial stone 0