epigram

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Literatureepigramep‧i‧gram /ˈepɪɡræm/ noun [countable] ALa short sentence that expresses an idea in a clever or amusing way —epigrammatic /ˌepɪɡrəˈmætɪk◂/ adjectiveExamples from the Corpusepigram• The hon. and learned Gentleman made an epigram out of it.• In Emerson almost every sentence is an anecdote, a picture or an epigram.• His silence about the authorship of the more famous epigram thus amounts almost to a denial that Simonides wrote it.• Your taste in epigrams is amusing, Hardin, but out of place.• An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana.• Scattered through its numerous volumes are priceless gems of poetry, epigram, and story-telling.• He would end his lecture with a summarizing epigram.Origin epigram (1400-1500) Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epi- (EPICENTER) + graphein “to write”

单词	epigram
释义	epigram From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Literatureepigramep‧i‧gram /ˈepɪɡræm/ noun [countable] ALa short sentence that expresses an idea in a clever or amusing way —epigrammatic /ˌepɪɡrəˈmætɪk◂/ adjectiveExamples from the Corpusepigram• The hon. and learned Gentleman made an epigram out of it.• In Emerson almost every sentence is an anecdote, a picture or an epigram.• His silence about the authorship of the more famous epigram thus amounts almost to a denial that Simonides wrote it.• Your taste in epigrams is amusing, Hardin, but out of place.• An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana.• Scattered through its numerous volumes are priceless gems of poetry, epigram, and story-telling.• He would end his lecture with a summarizing epigram.Origin epigram (1400-1500) Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epi- (EPICENTER) + graphein “to write”
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