[ noun ] a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward <noun.communication>
Palindrome \Pal"in*drome\, n. [Gr. pali`ndromos running back again; pa`lin again + dramei^n to run: cf. F. palindrome.] A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.