Meaning

4 senses

  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.

    Palindrom

    палиндро́мpalindróm

    паліндромpalindrom

  2. (broadly)A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.

    a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward

  3. (broadly)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

Examples

13 sentences

  1. What is a palindrome?

    Що таке паліндром? — deniko

    ruЧто такое палиндром? — odexed

    deWas ist ein Palindrom? — Adelpa

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  2. I am fascinated by palindromes.

    Паліндроми мене зачаровують. — deniko

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  3. Aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes.

    ruЯибофобия - это боязнь палиндромов. — Ivanovb

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  4. "Kayak" is an example of a palindrome.

    ruСлово "kayak" - пример палиндрома. — odexed

    de"Kajak" ist ein Beispiel für ein Palindrom. — BraveSentry

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  5. Annasusanna is a beautiful name and a palindrome.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards:
Русский
By meaning 1
a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a sequence of units that reads the same forwards as backwards:

Origin

From Ancient Greek παλίνδρομος (palíndromos, “running back again”), from πάλιν (pálin, “ba

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).

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Forms

plural: palindromes
Singularpalindrome
Pluralpalindromes

regular

Word family

10 related words
Derivedsemi-palindromemassive palindromeheteropalindromepalindromaticpalindromicpalindromistpalindromizationpalindromizepseudopalindromequasipalindrome

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
paleB1paleontologistpaleontologypalettepalisadepall

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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