anthology

Syllables: an·thol·ogyUK/ænˈθɒlədʒi//ænˈθɑləd͡ʒi/

anthology noun: a collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.

Noun

anthology (plural anthologies)

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
(attributive) A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
(broadly) An assortment of things.
The study of flowers.

anthology meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

anthology in Hindi

anthology, compendium: समुच्चय samuccay

anthology in Tamil

தொகை நூல், பாடல் திரட்டு, நூற்கோவை, மணிமொழித் தொகுதி, மலர்த்தொடையல்

anthology in Urdu

anthology: مجموعہ majmū'a

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anthology in Bengali: কবিতা, সাহিত্যের সংকলন
anthology in Malayalam: പുഷ്പസഞ്ചയം, പൂക്കുല, പാഠമഞ്ജരി
anthology in Kannada: ಆರಿಸಿದ ಬರಹಗಳು, ಸಂಕಲನ
anthology in Nepali: एंथोलोजी, एन्थोलोजी
anthology in Arabic: تَجْمِيعَة tajmīʕa, دِيوَان dīwān
anthology in Malay: antologi
anthology in Indonesian: antologi, bunga rampai
anthology in Persian: گلچین golčin, گلشناسی gol-šenâsi
anthology in Vietnamese: văn tuyển

Examples of anthology in a sentence

The film is an anthology of three whimsical short stories set in France in the mid-20th Century.
An old genre, the patristic anthology, appeared in a new form in the sixteenth century.
But the range of potential material for a patristic anthology is vast.

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Forms of anthology

plural	anthologies

Plural of anthology: anthologies

Origin of anthology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”), from ἀνθολογέω (anthologéō, “I gather flowers”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + λέγω (légō, “I gather, pick up, collect”), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος (στέφανος (stéphanos, “garland”)) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology. Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express. By surface analysis, antho- + -logy.

Words formed from anthology

Words that rhyme with anthology

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Questions about anthology

What does anthology mean?: Anthology means a collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
What is anthology in Hindi?: Anthology in Hindi is समुच्चय (samuccay). See Anthology meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is anthology?: Anthology is a noun.
How do you pronounce anthology?: Anthology is pronounced /ænˈθɒlədʒi/ (UK).
What is the plural of anthology?: The plural of anthology is anthologies.

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