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ANECDOTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("anecdote" is a kind of...):
account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)
Derivation:
anecdotal (having the character of an anecdote)
anecdotic; anecdotical (characterized by or given to telling anecdotes)
anecdotist (a person skilled in telling anecdotes)
Context examples:
The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about my friend such a one.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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