Definitions for epigrams

epigrams ep·i·gram

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

Epigrams is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 506 anagrams from letters in epigrams (aegimprs).

Definitions for epigrams

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 epigrams

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

Examples for epigrams

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for epigrams
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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