Definitions for anaphoras

anaphoras a·naph·o·ra

Spelling: [uh-naf-er-uh]
IPA: /əˈnæf ər ə/

Anaphoras is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in anaphoras (aaahnoprs).

Definitions for anaphoras

noun

  1. Also called epanaphora. Rhetoric. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Compare epistrophe (def 1), symploce.
  2. Grammar. the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and he does too. Compare cataphora.
  3. (sometimes initial capital letter) Eastern Church. the prayer of oblation and consecration in the Divine Liturgy during which the Eucharistic elements are offered. the part of the ceremony during which the Eucharistic elements are offered as an oblation.
  4. Also called epanaphora. Rhetoric. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Compare epistrophe (def 1), symploce.
  5. Grammar. the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and he does too. Compare cataphora.
  6. (sometimes initial capital letter) Eastern Church. the prayer of oblation and consecration in the Divine Liturgy during which the Eucharistic elements are offered. the part of the ceremony during which the Eucharistic elements are offered as an oblation.

Origin of anaphoras

1580-90; Late Latin Greek: a bringing back, repeating, equivalent to ana- ana- + -phora, akin to phérein to carry, bring; cf.

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