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rosetta stone
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rosetta stone has 1 sense
- rosetta stone(n = noun.communication) Array - a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics; Array is a kind of stela, stele
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rosetta stone, n. a key to previously unattainable understanding.
Etymology
a stone found near Rosetta in Egypt, with a trilingual inscription of the 2nd c. BC in Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek, important in the decipherment of hieroglyphs
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