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Acrostics
A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
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noun
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A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
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A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
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A kind of word puzzle, the solution of which forms an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often forming the name of its author.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Acrostics"
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| Word | Definition |
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| word squarenoun | A type of acrostic, consisting of a set of words written out in a square grid, such that the same words can be read both horizontally and vertically. |
| rebusnoun | An arrangement of pictures, symbols, or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle. |
| palindromesnoun | a 2004 American comedy drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz. |
| ideogramsnoun | A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @. |
| mnemonicsnoun | (plural only) The study of techniques for remembering anything more easily. |
| antonymsnoun | (semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word. |
| boolean algebranoun | (algebra, logic, computing) Specifically, an algebra in which all elements can take only one of two values (typically 0 and 1, or "true" and "false") and are subject to operations based on AND, OR and NOT |
| anagramsnoun | a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters |
| antidisestablishmentarianismnoun | A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group (church) and a government (state), especially the belief held by those in 19th-century England opposed to separating the Anglican church from the civil government, or the separation of church and state. |
| wordlenoun | One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc. |
| ugariticnoun | The Northwest Semitic language of the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria. Extinct since 1100 B.C.E., it was written in cuneiform. |
| cryptogramsnoun | (games) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded. |
| homophonesnoun | "Homophones" is a word game in which a player creates a sentence or phrase containing a pair or larger set of homophones, substitutes another (usually nonsensical) pair of words for the homophone pair, then reads the newly created sentence out loud. |
| homonymsnoun | (semantics, strictly) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word. |
| crosswordsnoun | (games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word. |
| shakespearean sonnetnoun | (poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. |
| etymologiesnoun | (uncountable, linguistics) The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes. |
| similesnoun | the fifth album from Portland, Oregon ambient musician Matthew Cooper, under the name Eluvium. |
| bibliotherapynoun | A nonpharmacological therapy using reading materials to meet people’s therapeutic or developmental needs. |
| versificationnoun | (poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition. |
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