palindrome

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pal=in=drome

CIDE DICTIONARY

palindrome, n. [Gr. pali`ndromos running back again; pa`lin again + dramei^n to run: cf. F. palindrome.].

 A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

palindrome, n. a word or phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards (e.g. rotator, nurses run).

Derivative

palindromic adj. palindromist n.

Etymology

Gk palindromos running back again f. palin again + drom- run

THESAURUS

palindrome

abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, anastrophe, calembour, chiasmus, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, hypallage, hyperbaton, hysteron proteron, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, metastasis, metathesis, missaying, parenthesis, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerism, synchysis, tmesis, wordplay

ROGET THESAURUS

palindrome

Neologism

N neology, neologism, newfangled expression, nonce expression, back-formation, caconym, barbarism, archaism, black letter, monkish Latin, corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis, pun, paranomasia, play upon words, word play, double- entendre, palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch, abuse of language, abuse of terms, dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois, provincialism, regionalism, localism, broken English, lingua franca, Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism, Americanism, Gypsy lingo, Romany, pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English, Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir, dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish, confusion of tongues, Babel, babu English, chi-chi, figure of speech, byword, colloquialism, informal speech, informal language, substandard language, vernacular, vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity, jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang, pseudology, pseudonym, Mr, So-and-so, wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name, thingummy, thingumbob, je ne sais quoi, neologist, coiner of words, neologic, neological, archaic, obsolete, colloquial, Anglice.

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.