'Epigram' definitions:
Definition of 'Epigram'
From: GCIDE
- Epigram \Ep"i*gram\, n. [L. epigramma, fr. Gr. ? inscription, epigram, fr. ? to write upon, 'epi` upon + ? to write: cf. F. ['e]pigramme. See Graphic.]
- 1. A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character. [1913 Webster]
- Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Epigrams were originally inscription on tombs, statues, temples, triumphal arches, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The style of the epigram. [1913 Webster]
- Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. --B. Cracroft. Epigrammatic
Synonyms of 'epigram'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abridgment,
- adage,
- alba,
- ana,
- anacreontic,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- Atticism,
- axiom,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- bucolic,
- byword,
- canso,
- catchword,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- dirge,
- distich,
- dithyramb,
- double entendre,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- equivoque,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- haiku,
- happy thought,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- maxim,
- monody,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- narrative poem,
- nasty crack,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- oracle,
- palinode,
- paronomasia,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- persiflage,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- phrase,
- Pindaric ode,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- precept,
- prescript,
- prothalamium,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- pun,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- rhyme,
- riposte,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- sally,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- saw,
- saying,
- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- stock saying,
- stroke of wit,
- sutra,
- tanka,
- teaching,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- text,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- turn of phrase,
- turn of thought,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom