English dictionary
anagram
/'/&/n/@/,gr/&/m/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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 <i>Galenus</i> becomes <i>angelus</i>; <i>William Noy</i> (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into <i>I moyl in law</i>.
Source: webster1913
verb
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read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
Source: WordNet 3.0
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To anagrammatize.
Source: webster1913