anagram
Word family adjectiveanagrammaticadverbanagrammaticallynounanagrammatismanagrammatistanagramverbanagrammatize
an·a·gram /ˈænəɡræm/ ●○○ noun [countableC]ALa word or phrase that is made by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase 變位詞(組)〔改變某個詞或短語的字母順序後構成的新詞或短語〕‘Silent’ is an anagram of ‘listen’. silent是listen的變位詞。
anagram• Chambers suggested-Learlington, as an anagram of Nora Telling.• Florida is an anagram of Rid Of Al.• I decided on an anagram, Neela.• Indeed deliberately making all the tricky names into anagrams may be an easier way to work through the map for non-Gaelic speakers.• What chance have we lowland city folk got when we're confronted with maps covered in names that look like anagrams?• Apart from Holsten Pils, which is obviously, mind-shatteringly brilliant, I mean, anagrams, who'd have thought it?• Lousy crossword today, clever-clever, too many obvious anagrams. Origin anagram (1500-1600) French anagramme, from
Greek anagrammatismos, from
ana- (
→ ANACHRONISM) +
gramma “letter”