An anagram is a word or phrase that's formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For example, the letters that make up “A decimal point” can be turned into the anagram “I’m a dot in place.”
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.
Noun
a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
Verb
read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
n.
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.
v. t.
To anagrammatize.
Anagram
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Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus.
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.
To anagrammatize.
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