单词 | anthology |
释义 | anthology —anthological /an'theuh loj"i keuhl/, adj. —anthologically, adv. —anthologist, n. /an thol"euh jee/, n. , pl. anthologies. 1. 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. [1630-40; < L anthologia < Gk: collection of poems, lit., gathering of flowers, equiv. to anthológ(os) flower-gathering (antho- ANTHO- + -logos, adj. deriv. of légein to pick up, collect) + -ia -IA] |
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