3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Anthology \An*thol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. 'anqolo`gos flower gathering; 'a`nqos flower + le`gein to gather.] 1. A discourse on flowers. [R.] [1913 Webster] 2. A collection of flowers; a garland. [R.] [1913 Webster] 3. A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams. [1913 Webster] 4. (Gr. Ch.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: anthology n : a collection of selected literary passages From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 46 Moby Thesaurus words for "anthology": Festschrift, album, ana, analects, aquarium, beauties, body, book of verse, canon, chrestomathy, clippings, collectanea, collected works, collection, compilation, complete works, corpus, cuttings, data, delectus, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragments, fund, garden, garland, gleanings, holdings, library, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, museum, omnibus, photograph album, poesy, poetic works, quotation book, raw data, scrapbook, symposium, treasure, zoo
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