anthology

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noun

1

A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.

Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise.

2

A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.

3

An assortment of things.

4

The study of flowers.

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(noun.)

VERB + ANTHOLOGY

compile, edit, publish, put together

The editor compiled an anthology of short stories from different countries.

PREP

in an/the ~

Her favorite short story is included in an anthology of science fiction tales.

~ of

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Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfac

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02

I like both plays in our anthology very much.

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He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.

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I once read an interesting anthology of poetry generated by a computer program in 1984.

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From the coffee table photo book to the bathroom factoid anthology to the bedside escapist novel, American literature is designed to match the furniture.

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This is an anthology of poems.

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