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Word: Acrostic
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: from French acrostiche, from Greek akrostikhis, from akron ‘end’ + stikhos ‘row, line of verse’. The change in the ending was due to association with -ic
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈkrɒstɪk
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
Short Definition:poem, word puzzle, or other composition
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