Usually means: Poem using initials to spell.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word acrostic:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. acrostic: Merriam-Webster
  2. acrostic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acrostic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acrostic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acrostic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acrostic, acrostic: Wordnik
  7. acrostic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acrostic: Wiktionary
  9. acrostic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acrostic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acrostic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Acrostic, acrostic: Dictionary.com
  13. acrostic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Acrostic (puzzle), Acrostic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Acrostic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. acrostic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. acrostic: Rhymezone
  18. Acrostic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. acrostic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. acrostic: FreeDictionary.org
  21. acrostic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. acrostic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Acrostic: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. acrostic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. acrostic: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acrostic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acrostic, acrostic, acrostic: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acrostic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See acrostical as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
noun:  A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
noun:  A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to acrostics.

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