In ancient Egypt, the Sphinx is a male statue of a lion with the head of a human, sometimes with wings. Most sphinxes however represent a king in his appearance as the sun god.
An anacronym is an acronym or an abbreviation so old or familiar that no one remembers what its letters stand for, such as BASIC or COBOL . By the way, an acronym is not just any abbreviation. It's a word that is short for other words, usually using their initial letters.
Abbreviations can be formed from the first letters of the word or phrase. In such cases, we normally say them by spelling out each letter: â¦. (Definition of acronym from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).See all translations.cronym noun [C]. âº an abbreviation consisting of the first âletters of each word in the âname of something, âpronounced as a word: âAIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Grammar. InitialsAn initial is the first letter of a word.