anthology

noun an·thol·o·gy \ an-ˈthä-lə-jē \

|Updated on: 11 Jun 2018

Examples: anthology in a Sentence

Definition of anthology

plural anthologies

1 : a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music

an anthology of American poetry

2 : assortment

… an anthology of threadbare clichés of … bistro cuisine …
—Jay Jacobs

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anthological

play \ˌan(t)-thə-ˈlä-ji-kəl\ adjective

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Examples of anthology in a Sentence

an anthology of American poetry
The band will be releasing an anthology of their earlier albums.

Recent Examples of anthology from the Web

Their conversation will become part of an anthology that reflects the humanity, diversity and complexities of refugees and immigrants of color and also responds to rising antirefugee sentiments in the U.S. and Europe.

— vanessa hua, San Francisco Chronicle, "Gathering the Vietnamese diaspora," 7 June 2018
Seager is a native Californian whose writing has appeared in The Long Story and the San Diego Writers Ink anthology.

— john wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Winners named in library's inaugural short story contest," 6 June 2018
The company announced that an anthology series of TV movies will debut in 2019 based on some of her classic songs.

— tyler mccarthy, Fox News, "Dolly Parton joining Netflix for a series of TV movies based on her classic songs," 4 June 2018
An anthology of writing about hoops that starts with a piece by the founder, James Naismith, and goes through stories about LeBron James and Steph Curry.

— jim higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "85 books for summer reading," 18 May 2018
The siblings are also writing a second season of the spooky HBO anthology series Room 104 and gearing up for a book tour in support of their joint memoir, Like Brothers.

— david walters, GQ, "The Things Jay Duplass Carries While Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail," 16 Apr. 2018
The pop-up magazine, entitled Unruly Bodies, offers an anthology of essays by a dream-team of 24 acclaimed writers that provides an eye-opening education into the ways a body can refuse, resist, shock, and persist.

— je banach, Vogue, "Roxane Gay’s New Pop Up Magazine Will Change How You Think About Your Body," 11 Apr. 2018
Prominent actors dramatized portions of the book in a Harlem radio show, and the editors of an anthology of African American literature printed an excerpt.

— kate masur, Smithsonian, "How One Amateur Historian Brought Us the Stories of African-Americans Who Knew Abraham Lincoln," 20 Feb. 2018
Hyatt's widow mentioned at the time that an anthology would be forthcoming, which was welcome since the group's work is long out of print.

— andrew dansby, Houston Chronicle, "New anthology brings back the music of Uncle Walt's Band," 11 Jan. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of anthology

New Latin anthologia collection of epigrams, from Middle Greek, from Greek, flower gathering, from anthos flower + logia collecting, from legein to gather; akin to Sanskrit andha herb — more at legend

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First Known Use: 1624

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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