anthology
pronunciation
How to pronounce anthology in British English:
UK [ænˈθɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce anthology in American English:
US [ænˈθɑlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- a collection of selected literary passages
Word Origin
- 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.
Example
- 1. We were once published in an anthology together .
- 2. Truffaut 's film is like a little anthology of anecdotes from movie sets .
- 3. Goldbatt found one of his stories in a 1985 anthology of chinese writers .
- 4. John gross 's new anthology of parodies in english ( with a few foreign titbits ) has samples both high and low of this diverse genre .
- 5. Excerpts were published in the 1974 anthology " mind in the waters " and penthouse , according to brenner .