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palindrome
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(Noun) A word, phrase or sentence (or even longer - there's a 224-line poem that's a palindrome) that reads the same forwards and backwards.Usage: Bad history, good palindrome: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" - of Bonaparte and the island of his first exile. Old joke, so-so palin-drome: "My son is so smart he can spell his name forwards and backwards." "What's his name?" "Otto."
(Noun) words that are spelled the same forward or backward
spelled the same forward and backward
a word spelled the same ways forward as it is backwards
(Noun) a word read the same backwards as forewords
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