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ANECDOTE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("anecdote" is a kind of...):

account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)

Derivation:

anecdotal (having the character of an anecdote)

anecdotic; anecdotical (characterized by or given to telling anecdotes)

anecdotist (a person skilled in telling anecdotes)

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 Context examples: 

The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about my friend such a one.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)