Palindrome

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palindrome \Pal"in*drome\, n. [Gr. pali`ndromos running back
     again; pa`lin again + dramei^n to run: cf. F. palindrome.]
     A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read
     backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, &
     evil I did dwel.
     [1913 Webster] Palindromic



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  palindrome
       n : a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "palindrome":
     abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram,
     anastrophe, calembour, chiasmus, corruption, equivocality,
     equivoque, hypallage, hyperbaton, hysteron proteron, jeu de mots,
     logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, metastasis, metathesis,
     missaying, parenthesis, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning,
     spoonerism, synchysis, tmesis, wordplay