Word Meaning

anagram definition and meaning

n. Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
v. t. To anagrammatize.

Crossword clues for anagram

- Alec Guinness is one of genuine class!
- An old horse and sheep could make Ma a Gran!
- Crossword clue
- Cryptic clue
- Cryptic crossword device
- Disguised as a ragman?
- Rearranged word
- scramble as words
- Two articles on lightweight cryptic clue
- Two articles on lightweight type of cryptic clue
- Type of word play
- What sort of cryptic clue can a rag-man mix up?
- Word conundrum
- Word formed by letters of another
- Word formed by rearranging the letters of another
- Word jumble
- Word made from the letters of another
- Word puzzle
- Word rearranged to form another