Definition of anagram. Meaning of anagram. Synonyms of anagram

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Definition of anagram

Anagram
Anagram An"a*gram, v. t. To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. --Warburton.
Anagram
Anagram 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.

Meaning of anagram from wikipedia

- An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once...
- An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Anagram or Anagrams may also refer to: Anagram (band), Canadian...
- In the main type of anagram dictionary, the letters in words or phrases are rearranged in alphabetical order, and these transpositions are themselves...
- to include cryptic material: not cryptic clues in the modern sense, but anagrams, classical allusions, incomplete quotations, and other references and wordplay...
- minutes, and Tobin subsequently received his third life sentence. Operation Anagram was a nationwide police investigation into Tobin's life and movements....
- other songs such as "Grand Designs" from the Power Windows album. In "Anagram (for Mongo)", every line contains one or more words that are formed by...
- Anagrams (also published under names including Anagram, Snatch and Word Making and Taking) is a tile-based word game that involves rearranging letter tiles...
- The Anagram Islands are a group of small islands and rocks lying between Roca Islands and Argentine Islands, in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. The...
- Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for Neo) is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Matrix franchise, created...
- Anagrams is a 1973 non-fiction book on wordplay by Howard W. Bergerson. Over a third of the book is devoted to the study and collection of anagrams....