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ANAGRAMS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anagrams mean?
• ANAGRAMS (noun)
The noun ANAGRAMS has 1 sense:
1. a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters
Familiarity information: ANAGRAMS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("anagrams" is a kind of...):
word game (any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words)
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)
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