epigraph

/หˆษ›pษชหŒษกษนรฆf/

IPA: /EH0 P AH0 G R AE1 F/

noun
  1. 1

    An inscription, especially on a building.

  2. 2

    A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.

  3. 3

    (of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.

Antonyms

verb
  1. 1

    To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epigraph