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Definition of Anagrams
1. Noun. A game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters.
Definition of Anagrams
1. Noun. (plural of anagram) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of anagram) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anagrams
1. anagram [v] - See also: anagram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anagrams
Literary usage of Anagrams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"And so with anagrams. Not are the possible anagrams of most iv words considerably
reduced in ers by the fact that individual u frequently occur twice or ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1846)
"It required the valour of Falstaff to attack extinct anagrams ; and our pretended
English Bayle thought himself secure, in pronouncing all ..."
3. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius, James Nichols (1825)
"... superstitious with regard to anagrams on proper names. This perverted taste
had its origin among the learned of the early Protestants, who, ..."
4. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"a few words on anagrams cannot be out of place here. Few people are aware of what
their names really include ; for they unquestionably contain a deal of ..."
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