About The Word Acrostic
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Acrostic
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What's The Definition Of Acrostic?
[n] verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
[n] a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across Synonyms | Synonyms for Acrostic: word square Related Terms | Find terms related to Acrostic: abuse of terms | acronym | amphibologism | amphiboly | anagram | avyayibhava | back formation | calembour | clipped word | compound | conjugate | construction | corruption | dvandva | dvigu | endocentric compound | equivocality | equivoque | exocentric compound | formation | jeu de mots | logogram | logogriph | malapropism | metagram | missaying | palindrome | paronomasia | paronym | play on words | pun | punning | spoonerism | tatpurusha | word form | wordplay See Also | literary composition | literary work | problem Acrostic In Webster's Dictionary \A*cros"tic\, n. [Gr. ?; ? extreme + ? order, line,
verse.]
1. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the
last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken
in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
2. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the
letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.).
See {Abecedarian}.
{Double acrostic}, a species of enigma
\A*cros"tic\, Acrostical \A*cros"tic*al\, n. Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics. |
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