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anecdote

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/ˈæn.ɪkˌdəʊt/
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/ˈæn.ɪkˌdəʊt/ · [ˈæn.ɪkˌdəʉt] · [ˈɛn.əkˌdɐʉt] · /ˈæn.ɪkˌdoʊt/ · [ˈɛən.ɪkˌdoʊt] · /əˈnɛkˌɖoʈ/

Definition of anecdote

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
    “tell an anecdote”
    “relate a short anecdote”
    “Like all travellers, he is full of anecdote, and has at his command the rarest news of the time. […] Generous, convivial, and full of anecdote, the mercantile agent is a good companion, and his conversation never fails to make glad and jocund the society of that otherwise dullest of places, an English stage coach.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
    “tell an anecdote”
    “relate a short anecdote”
    “Like all travellers, he is full of anecdote, and has at his command the rarest news of the time. […] Generous, convivial, and full of anecdote, the mercantile agent is a good companion, and his conversation never fails to make glad and jocund the society of that otherwise dullest of places, an English stage coach.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A previously untold secret account of an incident.

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To tell anecdotes (about).
    “They were all men of the same set, knowing one another intimately, and knowing the same people; so they fell to talking and anecdoting in such pleasant wise that dinner-time approached […]”
    “Bob anecdoted the circus he and Jimmy had seen that afternoon.”

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Etymology

Late 17ᵗʰ c., from French anecdote, from Ancient Greek ἀνέκδοτος (anékdotos, “accounts unpublished”), from ἀν- (an-, “not, un-”) + ἔκδοτος (ékdotos, “published”), from ἐκδίδωμι (ekdídōmi, “I publish”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”). Virtually identical cognates in other European languages – French anecdote, German Anekdote, Spanish anécdota, among others.

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