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noun
- 1. a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing: "an anthology of European poetry"
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The meaning of ANTHOLOGY is a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music. How to use anthology in a sentence.
ANTHOLOGY definition: 1. a collection of artistic works that have a similar form or subject, often those considered to be…. Learn more.
Anthology definition: 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. See examples of ANTHOLOGY used in a sentence.
In genre fiction, the term anthology typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication.
The heavy textbooks that span the literature of an entire culture and that school children transport in over-sized backpacks with wheels? Those are anthologies. An anthology used to be just a collection of poetry, and the word came from the 17th-century Greek word anthologia for "flower gathering" or "collecting."
noun. /ænˈθɒlədʒi/. /ænˈθɑːlədʒi/. (plural anthologies) a collection of poems, stories, etc. that have been written by different people and published together in a book. an anthology of poems for children. The essay first appeared in an anthology of feminist criticism.
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.
