Definition of Anecdotes

1. Noun. (plural of anecdote) ¹

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Definition of Anecdotes

1. anecdote [n] - See also: anecdote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anecdotes

anearst
aneath
anecdata
anecdota
anecdotae
anecdotage
anecdotages
anecdotal
anecdotal evidence
anecdotalism
anecdotalisms
anecdotalist
anecdotalists
anecdotally
anecdote
anecdotes (current term)
anecdotic
anecdotical
anecdotically
anecdotist
anecdotists
anecdotive
anecdoton
anecdotum
anechoic
anechoic chamber
anecic
anecophyte
anecophytes
anectasis

Literary usage of Anecdotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"Brantome, as a nobleman and an experienced campaigner, was thoroughly familiar with the society to which most of his anecdotes refer. ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"The anecdotes that follow throw such additional sidelights on character, social life, and political conditions in the South as could hardly be expected from ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1820)
"anecdotes The revolution of human affairs had produced in Apulia and Calabria, a melancholy contrast between the age of Pythagoras and the tenth century of ..."

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