anastrophe

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/əˈnæstɹəfi/

Definition of anastrophe

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
    “Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.”
    “[…] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

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8-letter words

11 words

7-letter words

59 words

6-letter words

129 words

Hooks

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