anecdote
a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
a short, obscure historical or biographical account.
Origin of anecdote
1Other words for anecdote
Words that may be confused with anecdote
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How to use anecdote in a sentence
At a rather later date I gave a chapter of additional matter of the same description in my Anecdota Literaria.
A History of Caricature and Grotesque | Thomas WrightBekker's Anecdota include mention, also, 135 of the wooden seats of this temporary theatre.
A volume of Anecdota Brentiana was edited by Pressel in 1868.
British Dictionary definitions for anecdote
/ (ˈænɪkˌdəʊt) /
a short usually amusing account of an incident, esp a personal or biographical one
Origin of anecdote
1Derived forms of anecdote
- anecdotic, adjective
- anecdotalist or anecdotist, noun
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