anagram
(noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
anagram, anagrammatize, anagrammatise
(verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
Source: WordNet® 3.1
anagram (plural anagrams)
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
• alphagram
• palindrome
anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)
To form anagrams.
• argaman
Source: Wiktionary
An"a*gram, n. Etym: [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. Graphic.]
Definition: 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.
An"a*gram, v. t.
Definition: To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 June 2025
(noun) an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
