anthology
[an-thol-uh-jee]
- 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.
- a collection of selected writings by one author.
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Origin of anthology
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Historical Examples
Its director was a man of letters and an anthologist of repute.
The DrunkardCyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
But the anthologist had not been 'wrapped up' like the rest of us.
Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western FrontE. W. Hornung
Indeed the pangs of the anthologist, if he has conscience, are burdensome.
Modern EssaysJohn Macy
anthology
- a collection of literary passages or works, esp poems, by various authors
- any printed collection of literary pieces, songs, works of art, etc
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Word Origin
C17: from Medieval Latin anthologia, from Greek, literally: a flower gathering, from anthos flower + legein to collect
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Word Origin and History for anthologist
anthology
n.
1630s, "collection of poetry," from Latin anthologia, from Greek anthologia "collection of small poems and epigrams by several authors," literally "flower-gathering," from anthos "a flower" (see anther) + logia "collection, collecting," from legein "gather" (see lecture (n.)). Modern sense (which emerged in Late Greek) is metaphoric, "flowers" of verse, small poems by various writers gathered together.
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