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(noun)
1.A
word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word
or phrase, such as satin to stain.
2.anagrams. (used with a sing. verb)Games. A game whose object
is to form words from a group of randomly picked letters. 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.
[New Latin anagramma, from Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein,
to
rearrange letters in a word: ana-, from bottom to top; see ana-
+ gramma, grammat- letter;
ana·gram·matic
(-gr-mtk) adj.
ana·gram·mati·cal·ly adv.
anagram \An"a*gram\, v. t. To anagrammatize.
Someone
anagramed his name, Stephen Dyer Wells, into Pernel S
Thyseldew.
anagram
\An"a*gram\, n. [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. ? back,
again + ? to write. Literally, the letters of a word read
backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change of one
word or phrase into another by the transposition of its
letters.
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