palindrome

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
palindrome
    n 1: a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Palindrome \Pal"in*drome\, n. [Gr. pali`ndromos running back
   again; pa`lin again + dramei^n to run: cf. F. palindrome.]
   A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read
   backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, &
   evil I did dwel.
   [1913 Webster] Palindromic
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "palindrome":
      abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram,
      anastrophe, calembour, chiasmus, corruption, equivocality,
      equivoque, hypallage, hyperbaton, hysteron proteron, jeu de mots,
      logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, metastasis, metathesis,
      missaying, parenthesis, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning,
      spoonerism, synchysis, tmesis, wordplay
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