palindrome
- n a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
- It came to him the next morning (palindrome), and with it the inspiration for this booka reverse dictionary that alphabetically lists an array of meanings and then retrieves .
- Any reference to Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Panama Canal always brings to my mind the palindrome: a man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
- Kinnikinnik, he reports, is not only an Indian smoking mixture of bark and leaves but the longest palindrome among the 450,000 entries in Webster's Third New International .