anagram
anagram is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abecedarian
- abecedary
- abuse
- accent
- affix
- alphabet
- alphabetical
- ambiguity
- anagrammatism
- antiphrasis
- arcanum
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- babu
- barbarism
- black
- book
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- call
- cant
- character
- charade
- christcross-row
- cipher
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- concealed
- confidential
- confusion
- consonant
- conundrum
- corruption
- crack
- crux
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
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Definition-first questions whose answer is anagram.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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