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# decipherment

«decipherment» in Mova's school dictionary: **working out the meaning of a code, secret message or old…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (decipherment — usually uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Decipherment is working out the meaning of a code, secret message or old writing that is hard to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone (by Jean-François Champollion in 1822) and the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park are famous examples. In puzzles and olympiads, decipherment means solving a code or an unknown script step by step.

### examples

- The decipherment of hieroglyphs took many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/#x1)
- The Rosetta Stone helped with the decipherment of Egyptian writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/#x2)
- The code-breakers worked on the decipherment of secret messages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/#x3)
- Some ancient scripts still wait for decipherment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/#x4)
- Our puzzle club practised decipherment of simple codes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/#x5)
- The decipherment of the old letter revealed a hidden treasure map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/#x6)

### note

Verb: decipher (to work out). Similar: decoding, deciphering. It applies to codes and hard writing, not to ordinary reading.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «decipherment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decipherment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.