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a secret system of writing, used for sending messages so that no one can understand them unless they know the system
The letter was written in cipher.
someone who has no power, or who is not important
He was only a cipher.
a design combining or interweaving letters or initials; a monogram
They had their family's cipher engraved on silver spoons and forks.