About The Word Anagram
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Anagram
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What's The Definition Of Anagram?
[n] a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
[v] read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning Synonyms | Synonyms for Anagram: anagrammatise | anagrammatize Related Terms | Find terms related to Anagram: abuse of terms | acrostic | amphibologism | amphiboly | calembour | charade | conundrum | corruption | equivocality | equivoque | jeu de mots | logogram | logogriph | malapropism | metagram | missaying | palindrome | paronomasia | play on words | pun | punning | rebus | riddle | spoonerism | wordplay See Also | antigram | read | word Anagram In Webster's Dictionary \An"a*gram\, n. [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. ?
back, again + ? to write. See {Graphic}.]
Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its
usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into
another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus
becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I.,
and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
\An"a*gram\, v. t. To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. --Warburton. |
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