anthology
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anthology (plural anthologies)
- A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
- 2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 July 2021:
- 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 particular event had happened otherwise.
- (attributive) A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
- (by extension) An assortment of things.
- The study of flowers.
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[edit]collection of literary works
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assortment of things
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study of flowers
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