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an·a·gram [ ánnə gràm ] (plural an·a·grams)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. word rearranged to form another: a word or phrase that contains all the letters of another word or phrase in a different order. "Astronomers" is an anagram of "no more stars."

2. word game: a word game that involves the forming of anagrams

[Late 16th century. Directly or via French anagramme< modern Latin anagramma, probably < Greek anagrammatismos "transposition of letters" < anagrammatizein (see anagrammatize)]

an·a·gram·mat·ic [ ànnəgrə máttik ] adjective
an·a·gram·mat·i·cal·ly adverb
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