Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. For example: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
- noun A segment of double-stranded DNA in which the nucleotide sequence of one strand reads in reverse order to that of the complementary strand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word, verse, or sentence that reads the same either from left to right or from right to left. The English language has few palindromes. Examples are—“Madam, I'm Adam” (supposed speech of Adam to Eve); “lewd did I live & evil I did dwel” (John Taylor).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A word, phrase, number or any other
sequence of units which has the property of reading the sameforwards as it doesbackwards , character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation,capitalization anddiacritics . - noun A
poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction. - noun genetics A stretch of
DNA in which thesequence ofnucleotides on onestrand are in thereverse order to that of thecomplementary strand
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I can only liken this to one of Bob Dylans songs – written completely as a palindrome … or more recently Weird Als song also in palindrome entitled Bob.
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According to Wikipedia, a palindrome is “a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that has the property of reading the same in either direction.”
A problem with palindromes? pabba 2008
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Just reading a palindrome is a pretty good mental workout.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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Just reading a palindrome is a pretty good mental workout.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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Just reading a palindrome is a pretty good mental workout.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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Just reading a palindrome is a pretty good mental workout.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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For the hook and the boot and the pink thing I am willing to offer a 10,000 word palindrome that is also an anagram for the first 10,000 words of the KJV Old Testament and also encodes a non-trivial portion of the genome of a healthy member of the mammal or fish species of your choice while still making at least three 3 pithy and trenchant observations about whatever it was
Elevation: Raise Yer Game, Internets, for I Am Giving Away Hooks 2009
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And I thought my “I found a 1200 word palindrome to get out of a Music Theory final in grad school” was good …
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* A palindrome is a word, phrase or car repair manual which reads the same backwards and forwards.
Heard By a Bird: December 3 Sparrow 2007
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And I thought my "I found a 1200 word palindrome to get out of a Music Theory final in grad school" was good...
haguremetaru commented on the word palindrome
palindrome: How I learned the definition:
Anna is a palindrome. So is Otto.
December 10, 2006
fangio commented on the word palindrome
My favorite palindrome:
A man, a plan, a canal: panama
December 26, 2006
arby commented on the word palindrome
I always think of TMBG when I hear this word - not only "I Palindrome I" but so many of John L's lyrics are all about the palindromes.
Also, for some reason this word reminds me of dromedary.
May 18, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word palindrome
Spot's regal lager's tops!
September 17, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word palindrome
Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!
September 17, 2007
uselessness commented on the word palindrome
The longest palindrome in the world.
September 17, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word palindrome
Wow!
September 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word palindrome
That's just scary.
September 18, 2007
pomegranate commented on the word palindrome
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
A Toyota's a Toyota.
A dog, a panic in a pagoda.
January 5, 2008
gangerh commented on the word palindrome
Do as I say, not as I do.
January 24, 2008
seanahan commented on the word palindrome
Best palindrome ever.
January 24, 2008
uselessness commented on the word palindrome
Ooh, I know a good palindrome too!
Never let a kiss fool you, or a fool kiss you.
January 25, 2008
skipvia commented on the word palindrome
Ooh, ooh...isn't "Do be a do bee" one also? That's either from Frank Sinatra or Romper Room...
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word palindrome
Are you thinking of "to be or not to be?" That's a definite palindrome. That Shakespeare sure knew his stuff.
January 25, 2008
yarb commented on the word palindrome
She sells seashells by the seashore.
January 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word palindrome
Shakespeare? Never heard of the guy. What does he write?
January 25, 2008
oroboros commented on the word palindrome
"A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal---Panama!"
-- Guy L. Steele, Jr.
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word palindrome
Oh come on, oroboros, that's not a palindrome!
January 25, 2008
asativum commented on the word palindrome
Wasn't Shakespeare the guy who wrote Colours of Good and Evil and the Meditationes Sacrae?
January 25, 2008
yarb commented on the word palindrome
No, that was the Earl of Oxford in collaboration with Bacon.
January 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word palindrome
I always mix those guys up. ;->
January 25, 2008
asativum commented on the word palindrome
Didn't Bacon collaborate with the Earl of Sandwich too?
January 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word palindrome
I LOVE THE DOVE
(a poem, of sorts)
I love the dove.
I do yoga today.
Anita washes the bath.
The abbot gave rice to the vixen.
Vixen, we already have rice!
Don't see the point? Who could blame you? Let's try it again, in Spanish:
AMO LA PALOMA
Amo la paloma.
Yo hago yoga hoy.
Anita lava la tina.
Dábale arroz a la zorra el abad
¡ Zorra, ya hay arroz !
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word palindrome
I think a lot of people around here are confused about what a palindrome is, and some are confused about what it is not. (See, I made one right there!!)
January 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word palindrome
U: There you go again with unwarranted assumptions. I can tell a palindrome from an example of chiasmus at 100 paces, no matter what you care to call your contributions.
And I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word palindrome
Oh, chiasmus. That's like the word racecar, isn't it? ;-)
January 26, 2008
arcadia commented on the word palindrome
Anyone here seen the film "Palindrome"? It's very disturbing, but in the end one of the characters explains what a palindrome is and then recites one that is classic. -Definitely the best laugh of an otherwise dark drama.
January 30, 2008
oroboros commented on the word palindrome
See a whole list of these at DYSLEXIC'S DELIGHT.
May 23, 2008
deliasailed commented on the word palindrome
delia sailed as sad elias ailed ;)
June 30, 2008
skipvia commented on the word palindrome
Bilby's recent seeding of many excellent palindromes in various places around the Wordieverse reminds me of two things:
1. I love palindromes.
2. I suck at creating them. The best I can do is "You buoy!" or "Yo, Bob! Oy!"
October 19, 2008
sionnach commented on the word palindrome
two Palin-dromes:
Wasilla's all I saw.
Peeks at foe Russia, is sure of task. Eep!
(from the AWAD newsletter)
October 28, 2008
dontcry commented on the word palindrome
Maybe we can call these 'palindrones.'
October 28, 2008
yarb commented on the word palindrome
The second one of those is brilliant!
October 28, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word palindrome
I found this Sator square on an Italian website:
Sator amabo taxat Obama rotas
"Sower Obama, as a favor to me, keeps touching his wheels".
October 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word palindrome
Young Sten nets gnu. Oy!
November 2, 2008
sonofgroucho commented on the word palindrome
A 224 word palindrome:
"Dammit I’m Mad"
by
Demetri Martin
Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog�?.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I’m a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog�?
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad.
March 4, 2009
roseandivy commented on the word palindrome
How come palindrome isn't spelled this same backwards and forwards?
April 24, 2010
oroboros commented on the word palindrome
A different sort of palindrome.
February 19, 2011
bilby commented on the word palindrome
some men interpret nine memos
September 8, 2017