noun

• 1An ancient British and Irish alphabet, consisting of twenty characters formed by parallel strokes on either side of or across a continuous line.

  ‘The combination of a rockcut ‘basin’, two separate carved footprints, the incised outline of a boar or pig, and an inscription in the Irish linear script, known as ogham, cannot be paralleled anywhere in Britain or Ireland.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘One is inscribed in Latin and also in ogham.’
  • ‘He initiated the modern study of ogam with an essay on the Mount Callan Stone in 1785.’

  1. 1.1An inscription in or character from the ogham alphabet.