English Explanatory Dictionary

palindrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
  2. A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
  3. A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
  4. A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand

Pronunciation

/ˈpælɪndɹəʊm/ /ˈpælɪndɹoʊm/ en-us-palindrome.ogg

Word forms

palindrome palindromes

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”). By surface analysis, palin- + -drome (compare also velodrome and syndrome).

Derived words

semi-palindrome massive palindrome heteropalindrome palindromatic palindromic palindromist palindromization palindromize pseudopalindrome quasipalindrome

Translations

Abkhaz: апалиндром Afrikaans: palindroom Albanian: palindromi Arabic: قَلْب مُسْتَوٍ Armenian: պալինդրոմ Armenian: դարձգիր Assamese: পেলিনড্ৰোম Azerbaijani: palindrom Basque: palindromo Belarusian: паліндро́м Bengali: প্যালিনড্রোম Central Bikol: palindromo Bulgarian: палиндром Catalan: palíndrom Chinese Cantonese: 回文 Chinese Mandarin: 回文 Czech: palindrom Danish: palindrom Dutch: palindroom Esperanto: palindromo Faroese: palindrom Finnish: palindromi French: palindrome West-Frisian: palindroom Galician: palíndromo Georgian: პალინდრომი German: Palindrom Greek: καρκινική γραφή Hebrew: פלינדרום Hindi: चित्रकाव्य Hungarian: palindrom Icelandic: samhverfa Ido: palindromo Indonesian: palindrom Interlingua: palindromo Irish: palandróm Italian: palindromo Japanese: 回文 Kannada: ಗತಪ್ರತ್ಯಾಗತ Korean: 회문 Northern Kurdish: palîndrom
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