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epigram 音標拼音: ['ɛpəgr ,æm] n. 警句,諷刺短詩 警句,諷刺短詩 epigram n 1: a witty saying [ synonym: { epigram}, { quip}] Epigram \ Ep" i* gram\, n. [ L. epigramma, fr. Gr. ? inscription, epigram, fr. ? to write upon, ' epi` upon ? to write: cf. F. [' e] pigramme. See { Graphic}.] 1. A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character. [ 1913 Webster] Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Epigrams were originally inscription on tombs, statues, temples, triumphal arches, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The style of the epigram. [ 1913 Webster] Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. -- B. Cracroft. Epigrammatic148 Moby Thesaurus words for " epigram": Atticism, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, abridgment, adage, alba, ana, anacreontic, analects, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, axiom, balada, ballad, ballade, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, bucolic, byword, canso, catchword, chanson, clerihew, collected sayings, conceit, crack, current saying, dictate, dictum, dirge, distich, dithyramb, double entendre, eclogue, elegy, epic, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, equivoque, expression, facetiae, flash of wit, flight of wit, georgic, ghazel, gibe, gnome, golden saying, haiku, happy thought, idyll, jeu de mots, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, maxim, monody, moral, mot, motto, narrative poem, nasty crack, nursery rhyme, ode, oracle, palinode, paronomasia, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, persiflage, phrase, pithy saying, play of wit, play on words, pleasantry, poem, precept, prescript, prothalamium, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, pun, quip, quips and cranks, repartee, retort, rhyme, riposte, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, sally, satire, saw, saying, scintillation, sentence, sententious expression, sestina, sloka, smart crack, smart saying, snappy comeback, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, stock saying, stroke of wit, sutra, tanka, teaching, tenso, tenzone, text, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, turn of phrase, turn of thought, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, wisecrack, witticism, word, words of wisdom
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