anthology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: an=thol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

anthology, n. [Gr. , fr. 'anqolo`gos flower gathering; 'a`nqos flower + le`gein to gather.].

•  A discourse on flowers.  [1913 Webster]
•  A collection of flowers; a garland.  [1913 Webster]
•  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]
•  A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

anthology, n. (pl. -ies) a published collection of passages from literature (esp. poems), songs, reproductions of paintings, etc.

Derivative

anthologist n.

Etymology

F anthologie or med.L f. Gk anthologia f. anthos flower + -logia collection f. lego gather

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

anthology

Compendium

N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.