| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·a·gram |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n  -grm |
| 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) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin anagramma, from Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein, to rearrange letters in a word : ana-, from bottom to top; see ana– + gramma, grammat-, letter; see gerbh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ana·gram·matic (-gr-mt k) —ADJECTIVE
ana·gram·mati·cal·ly —ADVERB
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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