"spinonym" meaning in English

See spinonym in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: spinonyms [plural]
Etymology: spin + -onym Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|spin|onym}} spin + -onym Head templates: {{en-noun}} spinonym (plural spinonyms)
  1. A type of ambigram in which a word is written using the same glyph repeated in different orientations.

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for spinonym meaning in English (1.5kB)

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