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Meaning of acrostics

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

acrostics

noun

Definitions

  1. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

  2. A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.

  3. A kind of word puzzle, the solution of which forms an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often forming the name of its author.