Definition of "acrostic" []

• A poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence. (noun)
• See word square. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "An acrostic is "a line of poetry composed in such a way that in reading, in the vertical direction, the first letter of each verse, we find the word used as a theme.""
• "= An acrostic is "aline of poetry composed in such a way that in reading, in the vertical direction, the first letter of each verse, we find the word used as a theme.""
• "In a wider sense the name acrostic is applied to alphabetical or "abecedarian" poems."