| Palindrome (n.) 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 dwell. Thesaurus Entries 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 |