ANAGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anagram mean? 

• ANAGRAM (noun)
  The noun ANAGRAM has 1 sense:

1. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

  Familiarity information: ANAGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

• ANAGRAM (verb)
  The verb ANAGRAM has 1 sense:

1. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

  Familiarity information: ANAGRAM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANAGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("anagram" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anagram"):

antigram (an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase)

Derivation:

anagram (read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning)

anagrammatic; anagrammatical (related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram)

anagrammatise; anagrammatize (read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning)

• ANAGRAM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

anagram; anagrammatise; anagrammatize

Hypernyms (to "anagram" is one way to...):

read (interpret something that is written or printed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

anagram (a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase)

 Context examples 

When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)