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anagram
[ an-uh-gram ]
noun
- a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters:
“Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”
- anagrams, (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players build words by transposing and, often, adding letters.
verb (used with object)
- to form (the letters of a text) into a secret message by rearranging them.
- to rearrange (the letters of a text) so as to discover a secret message.
anagram
/ ˌænəɡrəˈmætɪk; ˈænəˌɡræm /
noun
- a word or phrase the letters of which can be rearranged into another word or phrase
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Derived Forms
- ˌanagramˈmatically, adverb
- anagrammatic, adjective
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Other Words From
- an·a·gram·mat·ic [an-, uh, -gr, uh, -, mat, -ik], ana·gram·mati·cal adjective
- ana·gram·mati·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anagram1
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Example Sentences
[From The Daily Beast's own Brian Ries] Hi Ron Paul your name is an anagram for "Our Plan."
And cruder devices certainly deepen the effect of a name; Caliban is a rough anagram of “cannibal,” and Cassio contains an “ass.”
Even the title of the film is an anagram of “Truths Denials.”
Colleville invented an anagram on Cochin's name; with his given names it made up "Cochenille."
Anagram′matism, the practice of making anagrams; Anagram′matist, a maker of anagrams.
In each pan place a group of articles or pictures which will represent in anagram the filling of a pie.
The master was Captain Roderick Ralestone, although he concealed his name in a sort of an anagram.
It happening that both had the same name, Catherine, they passed the whole afternoon in forming it into an anagram.
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