anthologist
Americannoun
-
anthologists
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
McClatchy, 72, American poet, editor, anthologist, translator, critic, Thornton Wilder scholar, essayist and writer of acclaimed opera librettos, died Tuesday of cancer at home in Manhattan.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
His father was an editor, author and anthologist of poetry and children’s books, including “Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2018
Mr. Hoffman, who cultivated gay authors as an editor and anthologist, was also celebrated as the librettist of composer John Corigliano’s opera “The Ghosts of Versailles.”
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2017
One anthology to look up this fall comes from master anthologist Ellen Datlow, who takes on H.P.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2016
This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
In her preface to “Inhabit the Poem,” she writes that the “popular belief that ‘gatekeepers’—publishers, university lecturers, anthologists, and advertisers—create the longevity of the authors we call ‘canonical’ is false.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The anthologists are another reason for excitement: Ann VanderMeer is one of the best-regarded editors in the field – she’s a former editor-in-chief for Weird Tales who now acquires titles for Tor.com.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2016
John Mullan pointed out in the Guardian that, unlike many anthologists, Gross came up with the unfamiliar – less than 10% of his material had previously appeared in other Oxford anthologies.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2011
The haughty little magazines and the anthologists never knew him, and would have ignored him if they had.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lucas, prince of anthologists, for the liberal use I have made of his "Life of Charles Lamb."
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
