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an⋅thol⋅o⋅gy

  [an-thol-uh-jee]
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–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.
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

Related forms:
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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an·thol·o·gy   (ān-thŏl'ə-jē)   
n.   pl. an·thol·o·gies
  1. A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays.
  2. A miscellany, assortment, or catalog, as of complaints, comments, or ideas: "The Irish love their constitution for what it is: an anthology of the clerical-nationalist ideas of 1936" (Economist).

[Medieval Greek anthologiā, collection of epigrams, from Greek, flower gathering, from anthologein, to gather flowers : antho-, antho- + logos, a gathering (from legein, to gather; see leg- in Indo-European roots).]
an'tho·log'i·cal (ān'thə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) adj.
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Anthology

An*thol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. 'anqolo`gos flower gathering; 'a`nqos flower + le`gein to gather.]

1. A discourse on flowers. [R.]

2. A collection of flowers; a garland. [R.]

3. A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

4. (Gr. Ch.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : anthology
Spanish: antología,
German: Anthologie,
Japanese: 名詩名文集
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anthology 
1640, 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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