Definition of 'anthology'
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anthology in British English
nounWord forms: plural -gies
1.
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Word origin
C17: from Medieval Latin anthologia, from Greek, literally: a flower gathering, from anthos flower + legein to collect
Word Frequency
anthology in American English
nounWord forms: plural anˈthologies
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anthology in American English
(ænˈθɑlədʒi)
nounWord forms: plural -gies
1.
a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period,
or on the same subject
an anthology of Elizabethan drama
an anthology of modern philosophy
2.
a collection of selected writings by one author
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Derived forms
anthological (ˌænθəˈlɑdʒɪkəl) adjective
anthologically
adverb
anthologist
noun
Word origin
[1630–40; ‹ L anthologia ‹ Gk: collection of poems, lit., gathering of flowers, equiv. to anthológ(os) flower-gathering (antho- antho- + -logos, adj. deriv. of légein to pick up, collect) + -ia -ia]Examples of 'anthology' in a sentence
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anthology
British English: anthology
NOUN /ænˈθɒlədʒɪ/
An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
...an anthology of poetry.
- American English: anthology /ænˈθɒlədʒi/
- Brazilian Portuguese: antologia
- Chinese: 选集
- European Spanish: antología
- French: anthologie
- German: Anthologie
- Italian: antologia
- Japanese: 作品集
- Korean: 명문집
- European Portuguese: antologia
- Latin American Spanish: antología
- Thai: บทเขียนรวมผลงานของนักเขียนหลายคน
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