Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays.
- noun A miscellany, assortment, or catalog, as of complaints, comments, or ideas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A treatise on flowers.
- noun A collection of flowers; a garland.
- noun A collection of poems, epigrams, and fugitive pieces by various authors.
- noun In the Gr. Ch., a selection from several of the official service-books of such parts of the services as are most needed by the laity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A discourse on flowers.
- noun rare A collection of flowers; a garland.
- noun 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.
- noun (Gr. Ch.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
collection ofliterary works , such aspoems orshort stories . - noun by extension An
assortment of things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a collection of selected literary passages
Etymologies
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Examples
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My contribution to the anthology is a Professor Challenger story called The Disintegration Machine (adapted by Rod Lott from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle).
Cracking Toast, Kermit! Roger Langridge 2009
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But there were some really good stories, too, and overall the anthology is a good one.
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Maybe it's because the anthology is a nanotech werewolves in love anthology, so I have to come up with a nanotech werewolves in love story.
Things to Know yuki_onna 2010
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My contribution to the anthology is a Professor Challenger story called The Disintegration Machine (adapted by Rod Lott from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle).
Archive 2009-05-01 Roger Langridge 2009
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But there were some really good stories, too, and overall the anthology is a good one.
February 2009 2009
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Polyphony 4 makes it clear enough that a spirit of experimentation exists among those writers who have chosen to work within the uber-genre of science fiction/fantasy, much more so, if this anthology is at all representative, than among those who still aspire to the putative respectability of "literary fiction."
Genre Fiction 2010
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Taking a slightly different approach to the other X-Men anthologies, this anthology is all novellas.
Superhero Prose Fiction: X-Men - Five Decades of the X-Men Blue Tyson 2007
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Taking a slightly different approach to the other X-Men anthologies, this anthology is all novellas.
Archive 2007-12-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Okay, so since the Bomber's Broadside went to bed (the project formerly known as the Yankee Annual), the fleamarkets are over, a pile of other deadlines have also been kicked, and the cowboy erotica anthology is almost done, I find myself for the past ten days in a state of actual depression.
February 23rd, 2007 ceciliatan 2007
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But the anthology is at its most charming when it is at its most quirky.
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