📖 Definitions of "Epigraphs"
noun
- 1
An inscription, especially on a building.
- 2
A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
- 3
(of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| epigraphicalnoun | epigraphic |
| epigraphynoun | The study or decipherment of inscriptions, especially of ancient ones. |
| epigramsnoun | Twenty-nine epigrams are attributed to Plato, mostly in the Greek Anthology. |
| epigramnoun | A brief but witty saying. |
| epigraphicnoun | Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy. |
| epigrammatical | Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram; concise and witty or pointed. |
| inscriptionsnoun | Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item. |
| quotesnoun | Quotation marks. |
| passagesnoun | a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990 through Private Music. |
| epigrammatic | having the characteristics of an epigram |
| quotationsnoun | (countable) A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech. |
| epigrammatistnoun | Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings) |
| writingsnoun | the third of three divisions of the hebrew scriptures |
| epideicticnoun | Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events. One of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle. |
| epitaphsnoun | An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased. |
| excerptsnoun | A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition. |
| epigrammatically | In a manner suggestive of an epigram. |
| citationsnoun | The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing. |
| poemsnoun | the first work by British novelist William Golding (better known for Lord of the Flies, among other novels), released in 1934, 20 years before Lord of the Flies (his second major work and first novel). |
| epithetsnoun | A term used to characterize a person or thing. |
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