单词 | anthology |
释义 | an·thol·o·gy (ăn-thŏlə-jē) n. pl. an·thol·o·gies 1. A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays. 2. 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). [Medieval Greek anthologiā, collection of epigrams, from Greek, flower gathering, from anthologein, to gather flowers : antho-, antho- + logos, a gathering (from legein, to gather; see leg- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] an′tho·logi·cal (ăn′thə-lŏjĭ-kəl) adj. |
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