| Anagram 1. (n.) A word or phrase formed from another by the transposition of its letters; as, Galenus and angelus are anagrams; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law. 2. (v. t.) To anagrammatize. Thesaurus Entries abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, calembour, charade, conundrum, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, rebus, riddle, spoonerism, wordplay |