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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024an•ec•dote /ˈænɪkˌdoʊt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a short story about an interesting or amusing incident or event, often biographical.
an•ec•do•tal, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024an•ec•dote (an′ik dōt′),USA pronunciation n. - a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical.
- Late Greek, Greek anékdota things unpublished (referring esp. to Procopius' unpublished memoirs of Justinian and Theodora), neuter plural of anékdotos, equivalent. to an- an-1 + ékdotos given out, verbal adjective, adjectival of ekdidónai to give out, publish (ek- ec- + didónai to give)
- Neo-Latin anecdota or French anecdotes
- 1670–80
story, yarn, reminiscence. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: anecdote /ˈænɪkˌdəʊt/ n - a short usually amusing account of an incident, esp a personal or biographical one
Etymology: 17th Century: from Medieval Latin anecdota unpublished items, from Greek anekdotos unpublished, from an- + ekdotos published, from ekdidonai, from ek- out + didonai to giveˌanecˈdotalist, ˈanecˌdotist n |