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ANTHOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of selected literary passages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("anthology" is a kind of...):
collection; compendium (a publication containing a variety of works)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anthology"):
divan; diwan (a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author))
florilegium; garland; miscellany (an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.)
omnibus (an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author)
Derivation:
anthologise (compile an anthology)
anthologist (an editor who makes selections for an anthology)
anthologize (compile an anthology)
