Usually means: Quotation introducing theme at chapter's start.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word epigraph:

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

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  2. EPIGRAPH: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epigraph (archeology), epigraph: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epigraph: A Word A Day

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

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  2. epigraph: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An inscription, especially on a building.
noun:  A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
noun:  (mathematics, of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
verb:  (transitive) To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.

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