Definitions for epigram

epigram ep·i·gram

Spelling: [ep-i-gram]
IPA: /ˈɛp ɪˌgræm/

Epigram is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 234 anagrams from letters in epigram (aegimpr).

Definitions for epigram

noun

  1. any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed.
  2. epigrammatic expression:
  3. a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.

Origin of epigram

1400-50; late Middle English Latin epigramma Greek epígramma inscription, epigram. See epi-, -gram1

Examples for epigram

"I wasn't thinking," he answered, searching guiltily for an epigram.

The epigram, with its faint whiff of the eighties, meant nothing.

There is little point—that is, there is no epigram—in the 'Trial.'

Mendelssohn seeking an epigram had stumbled into a dubious oracle.

A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.

I remember his epigram: 'Once I was the son of my father; now I am the father of my son.'

It is sometimes an epigram, and at worst it is never a quotation.

It's a common melodrama with bits of wit and epigram stuck on to it!

I asked him to be more explicit, and he amplified his epigram into: "Pekingese."

Oddly enough, this last Cockney epigram clings to my memory.

Word Value for epigram
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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