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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: acrostic (0.00907 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to acrostic.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: acrostic
acrostic
n 1: a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the
same down as across [syn:
word square]
2: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each
line form a word or message
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Acrostic
Acrostic
\A*cros"tic\, Acrostical
\A*cros"tic*al\, n.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
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Acrostic
\A*cros"tic\, n. [Gr. ?; ? extreme + ? order, line,
verse.]
1. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the
last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken
in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
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2. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the
letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.).
See
Abecedarian.
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Double acrostic, a species of enigma (crossword puzzle), in
which words are to be guessed whose initial and final
letters form other words.
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