n. 1. A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. 2. A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. 3. Epigrammatic discourse or expression. [Middle English, from Old French epigramme, from Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epigraphein, to mark the surface, inscribe : epi-, epi- + graphein, to write; see gerbh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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