palindrome
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- noun
- /ˈpælɪnˌdroʊm/
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palíndromo
- Perec held the record for the longest palindrome in French and devised literary formulas for actions that could be run backwards to cancel their effects.
- palindrome word
- read as a palindrome
Examples
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A palindrome is a word that reads the same backwards and forwards.
Blog text (6) -
How would you find out if that short text had a palindrome in it or not?
Blog text (7) -
His name is almost a palindrome, but not quite.
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Well, your name is very special because it is a palindrome.
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The only exciting thing about 2002 is that it's a palindrome.
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Examples of palindromes include Anna Racecar and Madam I'm Adam.
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Palindromes, um, something you can spell backwards and forwards the same way.
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I love palindromes.
Fiction book (1996) -
Su Hui invented the genre of the palindrome poem, and her Suanji Tu is the most complex example written to date.
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A word like 'level' is a simple example of a palindrome.
Surface Forms
Morphology
palindrome = palin + drome
Built from Greek combining forms (palin- 'again' + -drome 'running/way') that are not standalone English words, so the meaning is not transparently derivable by a B1 learner from the component parts.
Etymology
The word palindrome comes from the Greek parts palin ('again') and dromos ('running' or 'course'), so it suggests something that 'runs again'. That's why a palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same backward and forward.