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an·thol·o·gy  audio  (n-thl-j) KEY 

NOUN:
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).

ETYMOLOGY:
Medieval Greek anthologi, 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)

OTHER FORMS:
antho·logi·cal  (nth-lj-kl) KEY (Adjective)


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