'Palindrome' definitions:
Definition of 'palindrome'
(from WordNet)
noun
A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
Definition of 'Palindrome'
From: GCIDE
- Palindrome \Pal"in*drome\, n. [Gr. pali`ndromos running back again; pa`lin again + dramei^n to run: cf. F. palindrome.] 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 dwel. [1913 Webster] Palindromic
Synonyms of 'palindrome'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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