Usually means: Reads the same backward, forward.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word palindrome:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. palindrome: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. palindrome: Merriam-Webster
  3. palindrome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. palindrome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. palindrome: Collins English Dictionary
  6. palindrome: Vocabulary.com
  7. Palindrome: Wordnik
  8. palindrome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. palindrome: Wiktionary
  10. palindrome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. palindrome: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. palindrome: Dictionary.com
  13. palindrome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Palindrome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Palindrome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. palindrome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. palindrome: Rhymezone
  18. Palindrome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. palindrome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. palindrome: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. palindrome: FreeDictionary.org
  22. palindrome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. palindrome: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. palindrome: Wordnik
  25. palindrome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  26. Palindrome: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PALINDROME: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palindrome: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. palindrome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Palindrome: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. palindrome: Medical dictionary
  6. Palindrome: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. palindrome, palindrome: A Word A Day
  2. palindrome: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Palindrome: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. palindrome: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. palindrome: Prime
  6. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

(Note: See palindromes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
noun:  (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
noun:  (by extension) A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
noun:  (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand

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