Hanging on the wall was a picture of Mary, forefinger raised in threat, appearing as though she were reading the onlooker the riot act. The epigraph mounted beneath read: "I'm in charge here!"
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Epigraph
//ˈɛpɪˌɡɹæf//
Synonyms for "epigraph" (38 found)
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Related words (19)
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38 translations across 26 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπιγραφή noun (inscription)
Armenian
1 entries- բնաբան noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Catalan
1 entries- epígraf noun (inscription)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 碑文 noun (inscription)
- 題詞 /题词 noun (inscription)
Czech
1 entries- motto noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Dutch
1 entries- motto noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Esperanto
1 entries- epigrafo noun (inscription)
Estonian
1 entries- epigraaf noun (inscription)
Finnish
1 entries- epigrafi noun (inscription)
French
3 entries- épigraphe noun (inscription)
- épigraphe noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
- épigraphe noun (set of all points lying on or above a mathematical function's graph)
Friulian
1 entries- epigrafe noun (inscription)
German
1 entries- Epigraph noun (inscription)
Hungarian
1 entries- felirat noun (inscription)
Irish
1 entries- eipeagraf noun (inscription)
Italian
1 entries- epigrafe noun (inscription)
Japanese
2 entries- エピグラフ noun (inscription)
- 碑文 noun (inscription)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- epigraf noun (inscription)
- epigraf noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- epigraf noun (inscription)
- epigraf noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Polish
3 entries- epigraf noun (inscription)
- epigraf noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
- motto noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Portuguese
2 entries- epígrafe noun (inscription)
- epígrafe noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Romanian
2 entries- epigraf noun (inscription)
- epigraf noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Russian
2 entries- эпи́граф noun (inscription)
- эпиграф noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- епѝграф noun (inscription)
Spanish
2 entries- epígrafe noun (inscription)
- epígrafe noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
Swedish
1 entries- epigraf noun (inscription)
Ukrainian
1 entries- епіграф noun (literary quotation placed at the beginning of a text)
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