WORDPLAY meaning: Clever manipulation of language, meanings

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General (18 matching dictionaries)

wordplay: Merriam-Webster
wordplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
wordplay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
wordplay: Collins English Dictionary
wordplay: Vocabulary.com
Wordplay, wordplay: Wordnik
wordplay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
wordplay: Wiktionary
wordplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
wordplay: Infoplease Dictionary
wordplay: Dictionary.com
Wordplay (British game show), Wordplay (The Twilight Zone), Wordplay (UK game show), Wordplay (album), Wordplay (disambiguation), Wordplay (film), Wordplay (game show), Wordplay (musician), Wordplay (song), Wordplay (website), Wordplay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
wordplay: Rhymezone
wordplay: FreeDictionary.org
wordplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
wordplay: TheFreeDictionary.com

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wordplay: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

wordplay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wordplay)

▸ noun:  A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.
▸ noun:  A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively.
▸ noun:  (crosswording) The part of a cryptic clue that indicates but does not define the solution.

Opposite:

seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Types:

pun, alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, oxymoron, irony, litotes, hyperbole, more...

Phrases:

Japanese wordplay, wordplay pun, more...

Adjectives:

such, clever, mere, witty, etymological, similar, elaborate, much, complex, subtle, silly

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