Usually means: Inversion of normal word order.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. anastrophe: Merriam-Webster
  2. anastrophe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anastrophe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anastrophe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anastrophe: Vocabulary.com
  6. anastrophe: Wordnik
  7. anastrophe: Wiktionary
  8. anastrophe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. anastrophe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. anastrophe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Anastrophe, anastrophe: Dictionary.com
  12. Anastrophe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Anastrophe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. anastrophe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. anastrophe: Rhymezone
  16. Anastrophe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. anastrophe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. anastrophe: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. anastrophe: FreeDictionary.org
  20. anastrophe: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. anastrophe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. anastrophe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. anastrophe: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. ANASTROPHE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anastrophe: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anastrophe: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anastrophe)

noun:  (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

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