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A.Word.A.Day--palindrome palindrome (PAL-in-droam) noun A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. For example: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! [From Greek palindromos, running back again, recurring : palin, again + dromos, a running.] This is a Palindromic URL: https://wordsmith.org/words/sdrow/gro.htimsdrow//:sptth "The entire family is obsessed with wordplay. Palindromes are their specialty (thus the girls' names [Ava and Pip])." J Courtney Sullivan; Little Sister, Big Plans; The New York Times Book Review; May 11, 2014. X-Bonus Do not keep the slanderer away, / treat him with affection and honour: / Body and soul, he scours all clean, / babbling about this and that. -Kabir, medieval mystic poet (late 15th century)

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