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an·thol·o·gy  (  n-th  l   -j  ) KEY NOUN: pl. an·thol·o·gies
- A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays.
- 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:an tho·logi·cal ( n th -l j  -k l) KEY (Adjective)
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