Definitions for epigraph

epigraph ep·i·graph

Spelling: [ep-i-graf, -grahf]
IPA: /ˈɛp ɪˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/

Epigraph is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in epigraph (aeghippr).

Definitions for epigraph

noun

  1. an inscription, especially on a building, statue, or the like.
  2. an apposite quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.

Origin of epigraph

First recorded in 1615-25, epigraph is from the Greek word epigraphḗ inscription. See epi-, -graph

Examples for epigraph

It bears this epigraph, "Ecce Ego admirationem faciam populo huic, miraculo grandi et stupendo."

This aphorism might serve as an epigraph to Tristrem Varick.

But the presidential narrator—and perhaps Giscard himself—reply in the epigraph: “Promise kept.”

That of the long poem afterwards called Anactoria has neither a title nor the Greek epigraph from Sappho.

The head is well cut; the features have individuality and expression; the epigraph is sufficiently legible.

Your epigraph, my dear P., shows your kind and artless nature; but don't you see it is of no use?

This special edition was dedicated to God, and bore the epigraph: "Compulsory devotion is not agreeable to God!"

The author quotes Shelby Foote for the epigraph: “Southerners are very strange about that war.”

In the same chapel is shown an arm of Titus Livius, with this epigraph.

Richie Havens, 72 Who opened Woodstock, and thus became the epigraph to the ultimate document of the 1960s?

Word Value for epigraph
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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