Definition of "acrostic" in English

noun

1. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

2. A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.

3. A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to acrostics.