Synonyms for epigram

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ep-i-gram

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛp ɪˌgræm

Définition of epigram

Origin : mid-15c., from Middle French épigramme, from Latin epigramma "an inscription," from Greek epigramma "an inscription, epitaph, epigram," from epigraphein "to write on, inscribe" (see epigraph). Related: Epigrammatist.

noun witticism

Example sentences :

Oddly enough, this last Cockney epigram clings to my memory.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

It is sometimes an epigram, and at worst it is never a quotation.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

It's a common melodrama with bits of wit and epigram stuck on to it!
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

The epigram, with its faint whiff of the eighties, meant nothing.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

I remember his epigram: 'Once I was the son of my father; now I am the father of my son.'
Extract from : « A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy » by George Sampson

There is little point—that is, there is no epigram—in the 'Trial.'
Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey

Mendelssohn seeking an epigram had stumbled into a dubious oracle.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

"I wasn't thinking," he answered, searching guiltily for an epigram.
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.
Extract from : « Rubiyt of Omar Khayym and Salmn and Absl » by Omar Khayym and Ralph Waldo Emerson

I asked him to be more explicit, and he amplified his epigram into: "Pekingese."
Extract from : « A Boswell of Baghdad » by E. V. Lucas

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