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anthologies

Syllables: an·thol·ogiesUK/ænˈθɒlədʒiz/US/ænˈθɑləd͡ʒiz/

anthologies is the plural of anthology.

Meaning of anthology

Noun

anthology (plural anthologies)

  1. A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
    • Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a...2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2021
  2. (attributive) A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
  3. (broadly) An assortment of things.
  4. The study of flowers.

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Words that rhyme with anthologies

Questions about anthologies

What is anthologies the plural of?
Anthologies is the plural of anthology.
How do you pronounce anthologies?
Anthologies is pronounced /ænˈθɑləd͡ʒiz/ (US).

Words near anthologies in the dictionary

  1. antholites
  2. anthologer
  3. anthologers
  4. anthological
  5. anthologically
  6. anthologies
  7. anthologise
  8. anthologised
  9. anthologiser
  10. anthologisers
  11. anthologises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anthologies (page history and authors); anthology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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