Definition of epigram in English:

epigram

noun ˈɛpɪɡramˈɛpəˌɡræm

1A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
a Wildean epigram
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
- Humanism was gradually replaced by a new international literary culture - ‘classicism’ - that recirculated and recycled an encyclopedic repertory of classical texts, mythologies, epigrams, and commonplaces.
- His brilliant epigrams and shrewd social observations brought him theatrical success in the early 1890s with The Importance Of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman Of No Importance and An Ideal Husband.
- What people remember about his conversation is not what he said - he is no wit and no epigrams have attached themselves to his name - but the experience of having been drawn into the salon of his mind.
- It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams.
- So, after weeks of intense preparation, I have come up with several epigrams so devastatingly clever in their sarcasm that my adversaries will be forced to admit defeat and submit to my will immediately.
- She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.
- It gently satirized wartime bureaucracy, in a dazzling interchange of epigrams and catch-phrases, many of which passed into the common currency of speech.
- He worked in government service, but was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for writing revolutionary epigrams.
- Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept.
- He was a master of the scintillating surface, the witty musical epigram, the surprising twist.
- The only author the two seem to share in common is Oscar Wilde, hurling his various art-for-art's-sake epigrams at each other like barbs.
- And let's be honest here, he was an extremely limited writer and his persecution has probably secured for him a place in history which would have been unachievable from his exhausting epigrams alone.
- The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession.
- This was one of the reasons that people spent more time making up pithy aphorisms and witty epigrams.
- It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
- For him, the centrepieces of conversation were aphorisms, epigrams and paradoxes which seemed to trip effortlessly from his honeyed tongue.
- Considering how much I love his writing and, particularly, all his wonderful quotes and epigrams, I suppose I'd always imagined for myself how he might have sounded.
- Combined with his epigrams, the carefully selected images become poor monuments, an aid to critical remembering.
- Sophists are seen to entangle, entrap, and confuse their opponents, by means of strange or flowery metaphors, by unusual figures of speech, by epigrams and paradoxes, and in general by being clever and smart.
Synonyms
quip, witticism, gem, play on words, jest, pun, sally, nice turn of phrase
French bon mot, double entendre, jeu d'esprit
informal one-liner, gag, crack, wisecrack
rare paronomasia, equivoque
proverb, saying, maxim, adage, axiom, aphorism, saw, gnome, dictum, precept, epigraph, motto, catchphrase
cliché, truism, commonplace
words of wisdom, pearls of wisdom
informal (old) chestnut
rare apophthegm
1. 1.1 A short poem, especially a satirical one, with a witty or ingenious ending.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The papyrus bears 112 short poems called epigrams.
  He also takes over a number of themes from Hellenistic poetry, especially from Greek epigram.
  The forms of satirical discourse and epigram are introduced to convey his opinions more directly.
  It contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature.
  My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts.
  It contains some lists of epigrams and poems from the ancient library and it was found with a mummy, like a mask on the mummy.
  He cites as evidence the earliest use of the term in a literary context, from one of Martial's epigrams (here in the translation by Ben Jonson).
  The technique of the epigram, which he defined as ‘a short poem, complete in itself, either comic or. serious,’ is to get the ‘most meaning you can into the smallest amount of space.’
  Another structural principle groups the elegies and epigrams together.
  From the 70s and 80s A.D., we have some poems and epigrams by Martial.
  He wrote book after book of poems of various lengths, one collection consisting of poems so brief that some are epigrams or puns.
  It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet, even successfully bringing off a sixteen-line ‘monorhyme.’
  The Greek Anthology, a collection of erotic and witty epigrams compiled from classical to Byzantine times, pales beside it.
  Catullus, the great lyric poet of Caesar's Rome, is known to many as the author of the ‘Lesbia’ poems, drum-tight epigrams in which he beats his explorations of love, longing, betrayal, and loss.
  On the formal level, its massive length (at 196 lines, it is over four times as long as the second-largest poem in the collection) and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams.
  The resulting ambiguities have arguably frustrated readers for whom the contrasts and juxtapositions of the preceding epigrams offer a reassuring set of interpretive coordinates.
  He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success.
  The multitude of satirical verses, epigrams, slogans and cartoons displayed upon the statue's base earlier this year demonstrate that it is this subversive, anti-establishment tone which most characterises the Pasquino of today.
  Today an epigram is generally defined as any short poem with a witty ending.
  Ballades and epigrams seem to have been frequent immigrants here.

Derivatives

epigrammatist

noun ɛpɪˈɡramətɪstˌɛpəˈɡræmədəst

A writer of epigrams.
the Greek poet and epigrammatist Simonides
Example sentencesExamples
- Compared to her, Whitman is an epigrammatist.
- One grisly epigrammatist conceived an imaginary poem.
- ‘Painting is silent poetry,’ the Greek poet and epigrammatist Simonides wrote, ‘and poetry is painting that speaks.’

epigrammatize

verb ɛpɪˈɡramətʌɪzˌɛpəˈɡræməˌtaɪz

[with object]

Express in the form of an epigram.
Franklin could not have epigrammatized more sententiously her mottoes

Origin

Late Middle English: from French épigramme, or Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epi 'upon, in addition' + gramma (see -gram¹).

Definition of epigram in US English:

epigram

nounˈepəˌɡramˈɛpəˌɡræm

1A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
a Wildean epigram
Example sentencesExamples
- So, after weeks of intense preparation, I have come up with several epigrams so devastatingly clever in their sarcasm that my adversaries will be forced to admit defeat and submit to my will immediately.
- Humanism was gradually replaced by a new international literary culture - ‘classicism’ - that recirculated and recycled an encyclopedic repertory of classical texts, mythologies, epigrams, and commonplaces.
- It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
- He worked in government service, but was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for writing revolutionary epigrams.
- He was a master of the scintillating surface, the witty musical epigram, the surprising twist.
- This was one of the reasons that people spent more time making up pithy aphorisms and witty epigrams.
- Sophists are seen to entangle, entrap, and confuse their opponents, by means of strange or flowery metaphors, by unusual figures of speech, by epigrams and paradoxes, and in general by being clever and smart.
- For him, the centrepieces of conversation were aphorisms, epigrams and paradoxes which seemed to trip effortlessly from his honeyed tongue.
- She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.
- The only author the two seem to share in common is Oscar Wilde, hurling his various art-for-art's-sake epigrams at each other like barbs.
- Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
- Combined with his epigrams, the carefully selected images become poor monuments, an aid to critical remembering.
- And let's be honest here, he was an extremely limited writer and his persecution has probably secured for him a place in history which would have been unachievable from his exhausting epigrams alone.
- What people remember about his conversation is not what he said - he is no wit and no epigrams have attached themselves to his name - but the experience of having been drawn into the salon of his mind.
- The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession.
- It gently satirized wartime bureaucracy, in a dazzling interchange of epigrams and catch-phrases, many of which passed into the common currency of speech.
- Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept.
- It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams.
- Considering how much I love his writing and, particularly, all his wonderful quotes and epigrams, I suppose I'd always imagined for myself how he might have sounded.
- His brilliant epigrams and shrewd social observations brought him theatrical success in the early 1890s with The Importance Of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman Of No Importance and An Ideal Husband.
Synonyms
quip, witticism, gem, play on words, jest, pun, sally, nice turn of phrase
proverb, saying, maxim, adage, axiom, aphorism, saw, gnome, dictum, precept, epigraph, motto, catchphrase
1. 1.1 A short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He wrote book after book of poems of various lengths, one collection consisting of poems so brief that some are epigrams or puns.
  The multitude of satirical verses, epigrams, slogans and cartoons displayed upon the statue's base earlier this year demonstrate that it is this subversive, anti-establishment tone which most characterises the Pasquino of today.
  It contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature.
  The forms of satirical discourse and epigram are introduced to convey his opinions more directly.
  On the formal level, its massive length (at 196 lines, it is over four times as long as the second-largest poem in the collection) and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams.
  It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet, even successfully bringing off a sixteen-line ‘monorhyme.’
  Today an epigram is generally defined as any short poem with a witty ending.
  The resulting ambiguities have arguably frustrated readers for whom the contrasts and juxtapositions of the preceding epigrams offer a reassuring set of interpretive coordinates.
  My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts.
  He cites as evidence the earliest use of the term in a literary context, from one of Martial's epigrams (here in the translation by Ben Jonson).
  From the 70s and 80s A.D., we have some poems and epigrams by Martial.
  The Greek Anthology, a collection of erotic and witty epigrams compiled from classical to Byzantine times, pales beside it.
  Catullus, the great lyric poet of Caesar's Rome, is known to many as the author of the ‘Lesbia’ poems, drum-tight epigrams in which he beats his explorations of love, longing, betrayal, and loss.
  It contains some lists of epigrams and poems from the ancient library and it was found with a mummy, like a mask on the mummy.
  He also takes over a number of themes from Hellenistic poetry, especially from Greek epigram.
  The papyrus bears 112 short poems called epigrams.
  The technique of the epigram, which he defined as ‘a short poem, complete in itself, either comic or. serious,’ is to get the ‘most meaning you can into the smallest amount of space.’
  Ballades and epigrams seem to have been frequent immigrants here.
  He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success.
  Another structural principle groups the elegies and epigrams together.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French épigramme, or Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epi ‘upon, in addition’ + gramma (see -gram).

单词	epigram
释义	Definition of epigram in English: epigram noun ˈɛpɪɡramˈɛpəˌɡræm 1A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. a Wildean epigram Example sentencesExamples Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams. Humanism was gradually replaced by a new international literary culture - ‘classicism’ - that recirculated and recycled an encyclopedic repertory of classical texts, mythologies, epigrams, and commonplaces. His brilliant epigrams and shrewd social observations brought him theatrical success in the early 1890s with The Importance Of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman Of No Importance and An Ideal Husband. What people remember about his conversation is not what he said - he is no wit and no epigrams have attached themselves to his name - but the experience of having been drawn into the salon of his mind. It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams. So, after weeks of intense preparation, I have come up with several epigrams so devastatingly clever in their sarcasm that my adversaries will be forced to admit defeat and submit to my will immediately. She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play. It gently satirized wartime bureaucracy, in a dazzling interchange of epigrams and catch-phrases, many of which passed into the common currency of speech. He worked in government service, but was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for writing revolutionary epigrams. Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept. He was a master of the scintillating surface, the witty musical epigram, the surprising twist. The only author the two seem to share in common is Oscar Wilde, hurling his various art-for-art's-sake epigrams at each other like barbs. And let's be honest here, he was an extremely limited writer and his persecution has probably secured for him a place in history which would have been unachievable from his exhausting epigrams alone. The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession. This was one of the reasons that people spent more time making up pithy aphorisms and witty epigrams. It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs. For him, the centrepieces of conversation were aphorisms, epigrams and paradoxes which seemed to trip effortlessly from his honeyed tongue. Considering how much I love his writing and, particularly, all his wonderful quotes and epigrams, I suppose I'd always imagined for myself how he might have sounded. Combined with his epigrams, the carefully selected images become poor monuments, an aid to critical remembering. Sophists are seen to entangle, entrap, and confuse their opponents, by means of strange or flowery metaphors, by unusual figures of speech, by epigrams and paradoxes, and in general by being clever and smart. Synonyms quip, witticism, gem, play on words, jest, pun, sally, nice turn of phrase French bon mot, double entendre, jeu d'esprit informal one-liner, gag, crack, wisecrack rare paronomasia, equivoque proverb, saying, maxim, adage, axiom, aphorism, saw, gnome, dictum, precept, epigraph, motto, catchphrase cliché, truism, commonplace words of wisdom, pearls of wisdom informal (old) chestnut rare apophthegm 1.1 A short poem, especially a satirical one, with a witty or ingenious ending. Example sentencesExamples The papyrus bears 112 short poems called epigrams. He also takes over a number of themes from Hellenistic poetry, especially from Greek epigram. The forms of satirical discourse and epigram are introduced to convey his opinions more directly. It contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature. My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts. It contains some lists of epigrams and poems from the ancient library and it was found with a mummy, like a mask on the mummy. He cites as evidence the earliest use of the term in a literary context, from one of Martial's epigrams (here in the translation by Ben Jonson). The technique of the epigram, which he defined as ‘a short poem, complete in itself, either comic or. serious,’ is to get the ‘most meaning you can into the smallest amount of space.’ Another structural principle groups the elegies and epigrams together. From the 70s and 80s A.D., we have some poems and epigrams by Martial. He wrote book after book of poems of various lengths, one collection consisting of poems so brief that some are epigrams or puns. It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet, even successfully bringing off a sixteen-line ‘monorhyme.’ The Greek Anthology, a collection of erotic and witty epigrams compiled from classical to Byzantine times, pales beside it. Catullus, the great lyric poet of Caesar's Rome, is known to many as the author of the ‘Lesbia’ poems, drum-tight epigrams in which he beats his explorations of love, longing, betrayal, and loss. On the formal level, its massive length (at 196 lines, it is over four times as long as the second-largest poem in the collection) and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams. The resulting ambiguities have arguably frustrated readers for whom the contrasts and juxtapositions of the preceding epigrams offer a reassuring set of interpretive coordinates. He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success. The multitude of satirical verses, epigrams, slogans and cartoons displayed upon the statue's base earlier this year demonstrate that it is this subversive, anti-establishment tone which most characterises the Pasquino of today. Today an epigram is generally defined as any short poem with a witty ending. Ballades and epigrams seem to have been frequent immigrants here. Derivatives epigrammatist noun ɛpɪˈɡramətɪstˌɛpəˈɡræmədəst A writer of epigrams. the Greek poet and epigrammatist Simonides Example sentencesExamples Compared to her, Whitman is an epigrammatist. One grisly epigrammatist conceived an imaginary poem. ‘Painting is silent poetry,’ the Greek poet and epigrammatist Simonides wrote, ‘and poetry is painting that speaks.’ epigrammatize verb ɛpɪˈɡramətʌɪzˌɛpəˈɡræməˌtaɪz [with object] Express in the form of an epigram. Franklin could not have epigrammatized more sententiously her mottoes Origin Late Middle English: from French épigramme, or Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epi 'upon, in addition' + gramma (see -gram¹). Definition of epigram in US English: epigram nounˈepəˌɡramˈɛpəˌɡræm 1A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. a Wildean epigram Example sentencesExamples So, after weeks of intense preparation, I have come up with several epigrams so devastatingly clever in their sarcasm that my adversaries will be forced to admit defeat and submit to my will immediately. Humanism was gradually replaced by a new international literary culture - ‘classicism’ - that recirculated and recycled an encyclopedic repertory of classical texts, mythologies, epigrams, and commonplaces. It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs. He worked in government service, but was expelled from St Petersburg in 1820 for writing revolutionary epigrams. He was a master of the scintillating surface, the witty musical epigram, the surprising twist. This was one of the reasons that people spent more time making up pithy aphorisms and witty epigrams. Sophists are seen to entangle, entrap, and confuse their opponents, by means of strange or flowery metaphors, by unusual figures of speech, by epigrams and paradoxes, and in general by being clever and smart. For him, the centrepieces of conversation were aphorisms, epigrams and paradoxes which seemed to trip effortlessly from his honeyed tongue. She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play. The only author the two seem to share in common is Oscar Wilde, hurling his various art-for-art's-sake epigrams at each other like barbs. Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams. Combined with his epigrams, the carefully selected images become poor monuments, an aid to critical remembering. And let's be honest here, he was an extremely limited writer and his persecution has probably secured for him a place in history which would have been unachievable from his exhausting epigrams alone. What people remember about his conversation is not what he said - he is no wit and no epigrams have attached themselves to his name - but the experience of having been drawn into the salon of his mind. The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession. It gently satirized wartime bureaucracy, in a dazzling interchange of epigrams and catch-phrases, many of which passed into the common currency of speech. Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept. It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams. Considering how much I love his writing and, particularly, all his wonderful quotes and epigrams, I suppose I'd always imagined for myself how he might have sounded. His brilliant epigrams and shrewd social observations brought him theatrical success in the early 1890s with The Importance Of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman Of No Importance and An Ideal Husband. Synonyms quip, witticism, gem, play on words, jest, pun, sally, nice turn of phrase proverb, saying, maxim, adage, axiom, aphorism, saw, gnome, dictum, precept, epigraph, motto, catchphrase 1.1 A short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending. Example sentencesExamples He wrote book after book of poems of various lengths, one collection consisting of poems so brief that some are epigrams or puns. The multitude of satirical verses, epigrams, slogans and cartoons displayed upon the statue's base earlier this year demonstrate that it is this subversive, anti-establishment tone which most characterises the Pasquino of today. It contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature. The forms of satirical discourse and epigram are introduced to convey his opinions more directly. On the formal level, its massive length (at 196 lines, it is over four times as long as the second-largest poem in the collection) and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams. It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, aubade, and sonnet, even successfully bringing off a sixteen-line ‘monorhyme.’ Today an epigram is generally defined as any short poem with a witty ending. The resulting ambiguities have arguably frustrated readers for whom the contrasts and juxtapositions of the preceding epigrams offer a reassuring set of interpretive coordinates. My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts. He cites as evidence the earliest use of the term in a literary context, from one of Martial's epigrams (here in the translation by Ben Jonson). From the 70s and 80s A.D., we have some poems and epigrams by Martial. The Greek Anthology, a collection of erotic and witty epigrams compiled from classical to Byzantine times, pales beside it. Catullus, the great lyric poet of Caesar's Rome, is known to many as the author of the ‘Lesbia’ poems, drum-tight epigrams in which he beats his explorations of love, longing, betrayal, and loss. It contains some lists of epigrams and poems from the ancient library and it was found with a mummy, like a mask on the mummy. He also takes over a number of themes from Hellenistic poetry, especially from Greek epigram. The papyrus bears 112 short poems called epigrams. The technique of the epigram, which he defined as ‘a short poem, complete in itself, either comic or. serious,’ is to get the ‘most meaning you can into the smallest amount of space.’ Ballades and epigrams seem to have been frequent immigrants here. He was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, who wrote love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams with equal success. Another structural principle groups the elegies and epigrams together. Origin Late Middle English: from French épigramme, or Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epi ‘upon, in addition’ + gramma (see -gram).
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