epigram
IPA: ˈɛpʌgræm
noun
- (obsolete) An inscription in stone.
- A brief but witty saying.
- A short, witty or pithy poem.
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Examples of "epigram" in Sentences
- The French poems are all epigrams.
- He is the subject of two epigrams.
- He was a master of the epigram and sketches.
- The Poetic epigram is also in the couplet form.
- Nugae was the subject of an epigram of John Owen.
- He was an adept in the composition of Latin epigrams.
- Some persons attributed the whole epigram to Simonides.
- He translated Theocritus and the epigrams of the 'Greek Anthology'.
- He is commemorated by Antipater of Thessalonica in the below epigram.
- The final poem is an elegiac epigram for Virgil's tomb signed by Varius.
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