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an·thol·o·gy

   [an-thol-uh-jee]
noun, 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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Origin:
1630–40; < Latin anthologia < Greek: collection of poems, literally, gathering of flowers, equivalent to anthológ(os) flower-gathering (antho- antho- + -logos, adj. derivative of légein to pick up, collect) + -ia -ia

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an·tho·log·i·cal  [an-thuh-loj-i-kuhl] , adjective
an·tho·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
an·thol·o·gist, noun
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anthology (ænˈθɒlədʒɪ)
 
—n , pl -gies
1.  a collection of literary passages or works, esp poems, by various authors
2.  any printed collection of literary pieces, songs, works of art, etc
 
[C17: from Medieval Latin anthologia, from Greek, literally: a flower gathering, from anthos flower + legein to collect]
 
anthological
 
—adj
 
an'thologist
 
—n

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anthology
1630s, from L. anthologia, from Gk. anthologia "flower-gathering," from anthos "a flower" (see anther) + logia "collection, collecting," from legein "gather" (see lecture). Modern sense (which emerged in Late Gk.) is metaphoric, "flowers" of verse, small poems by various writers gathered together.
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