ANASTROPHE

Meaning of ANASTROPHE in English

[ ə'nastrəfi ]

■ noun Rhetoric the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.

Origin

C16: from Gk anastrophē 'turning back'.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

ANASTROPHE — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek anastrophē, literally, turning back, from anastrephein to turn back, from ana- + strephein to …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ANASTROPHE — əˈnastrə(ˌ)fē noun ( -s ) Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek anastrophē, literally, turning back, from anastrephein to turn back, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ANASTROPHE — (n.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
Английский словарь Webster
ANASTROPHE — ( n. ) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ANASTROPHE — /euh nas"treuh fee/ , n. Rhet. inversion of the usual order of words. [ 1570-80; ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ANASTROPHE — n. change in the order of words or phrases in a grammatical construction; inversion of the normal order of words
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ANASTROPHE — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek anastrophē, literally, turning back, from anastrephein to turn back, from ana- + strephein to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ANASTROPHE — noun an inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
Webster English vocab
ANASTROPHE — [anas.tro.phe] n [ML, fr. Gk anastrophe, lit., turning back, fr. anastrephein to turn back, fr. ana- + strephein to turn] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ANASTROPHE — n. Rhet. the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. [Gk anastrophe turning back (as ANA-, strepho to …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ANASTROPHE — n. rhet. the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. [ Gk anastrophe turning back (as ANA-, strepho …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ANASTROPHE — n. Rhet. the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. Etymology: Gk anastrophe turning back (as ANA-, strepho …
Oxford English vocab
ANASTROPHE — анастрофа
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ANASTROPHE — Анастрофа
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
ANASTROPHE — n лингв. анастрофа
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
ANASTROPHE — (n) анастрофа
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
ANASTROPHE — n лингв. анастрофа
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
ANASTROPHE — n лингв. анастрофа
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ANASTROPHE — анастрофа
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
ANASTROPHE — n. Pronunciation: ə - ' nas-tr ə -( ˌ )f ē Function: noun Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek anastroph ē …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
INVERTED ORDER — noun : an arrangement of the elements of a sentence (as subject, predicate) that is the reverse of the usual …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
INVERSION — ə̇nˈvər]zhən, -və̄], -vəi] also ]shən noun ( -s ) Etymology: Latin inversion-, inversio, from inversus (past participle of invertere to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ANASTROPHIA — ˌanəˈstrōfēə noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Greek anastrophē + New Latin -ia : a genus of costate subglobular …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
INVERSION
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
INVERSION — in music, rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines …
Britannica English vocabulary
SPEECH — Synonyms and related words : ESP, address, after-dinner speech, alliteration, allocution, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, answer, answering, antiphrasis, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SIMILE — Synonyms and related words : accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, …
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PARENTHESIS — Synonyms and related words : anastrophe, aside, broken thread, brokenness, chiasmus, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, episode, …
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PALINDROME — Synonyms and related words : abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, anastrophe, calembour, chiasmus, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, hypallage, hyperbaton, …
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METASTASIS — Synonyms and related words : anastrophe, avatar, catabolism, catalysis, chiasmus, communication, conduction, consubstantiation, contagion, convection, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, displacement, …
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METAPHOR — Synonyms and related words : accordance, agent, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, alternate, alternative, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogue, analogy, anaphora, …
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MALAPROPISM — Synonyms and related words : Irish bull, abuse of terms, acrostic, alliteration, allusion, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anagram, analogy, anaphora, …
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