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acrostic

/əˈkɹɔstɪk/

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What does acrostic mean?

noun

  1. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
  2. A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
  3. A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. A kind of word puzzle in which a series of words are clued, and individual letters from the clued word spell out one or more additional words.

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to acrostics.
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IPA pronunciation

/əˈkɹɔstɪk/

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