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[ ep-i-graf, -grahf ] / ˈɛp ɪˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf / SEE SYNONYMS FOR epigraph ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan inscription, especially on a building, statue, or the like. an apposite quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc. Origin of epigraphFirst recorded in 1615–25, epigraph is from the Greek word epigraphḗ inscription. See epi-, -graph WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH epigraphepigram, epigraph , epitaph, epithetWords nearby epigraphEpigoni, epigonus, epigram, epigrammatic, epigrammatize, epigraph, epigraphic, epigraphy, epigynous, epigynum, epikeratophakia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for epigraphRichie Havens, 72 Who opened Woodstock, and thus became the epigraph to the ultimate document of the 1960s? The Deaths You Missed This Year|Malcolm Jones, Jimmy So, Michael Moynihan, Caitlin Dickson|December 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST The author quotes Shelby Foote for the epigraph: “Southerners are very strange about that war.” The Best Civil War Books|Malcolm Jones|April 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST But the presidential narrator—and perhaps Giscard himself—reply in the epigraph: “Promise kept.” The Princess and the President|Eric Pape|September 23, 2009|DAILY BEAST So many characters are unfortunately wanting in this epigraph, that the inscription cannot be satisfactorily translated. Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon|Austen H. Layard
In the same chapel is shown an arm of Titus Livius, with this epigraph. The Diary of John Evelyn (Vol 1 of 2)|John Evelyn The verse you chose as an epigraph is altogether beneath criticism. The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky That of the long poem afterwards called Anactoria has neither a title nor the Greek epigraph from Sappho. Aspects and Impressions|Edmund Gosse Its coins represent Hercules contending with the lion, and bear the epigraph ΗΡΑ or ΗΡΑΚΛΗΙΩΝ. The Geography of Strabo, Volume I (of 3)|Strabo
British Dictionary definitions for epigraph
nouna quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc, suggesting its theme an inscription on a monument or building Derived forms of epigraphepigraphic (ˌɛpɪˈɡræfɪk) or epigraphical, adjectiveepigraphically, adverbWord Origin for epigraphC17: from Greek epigraphē; see epigram Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to epigrapheulogy, elegy, inscription, head, code, underline, device, cipher, rubric, key, table, motto, heading, epitaph, memorial, sentiment, legend, monument, remembrance, commemoration |