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Definition: Anecdote |
AnecdoteNoun1. Short account of an incident (especially a biographical one). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anecdote" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Etymology: Anecdote \An"ec*dote\, noun. [French expression anecdote, from the Greek expression not published; 'an priv. given out, to give out, to publish; out to give. See Dose, noun.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of relating an anecdote, signifies that you will greatly prefer gay companionship to that of intellect, and that your affairs will prove as unstable as yourself. For a young woman to hear anecdotes related, denotes that she will be one of a merry party of pleasure-seekers. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Description | Narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals; (chronicle); saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana, trait. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anecdote |
| English words defined with "anecdote": anecdotal ♦ gag ♦ Haggada ♦ jape, jest, joke ♦ laugh ♦ To tell tale of ♦ wheeze ♦ yak. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anecdote": Eat. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Anecdote" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (anecdote), French (anecdote, witticism). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Its an anecdote about a drugdeal (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino) It will embarrass him and, naturally, would make an interesting anecdote to my book (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
William Ellery Channing | One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | In this way he had tried to extract a moral from every anecdote. |
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Civil Liberties | Moldova | Figures on emigration from a variety of official sources are inconsistent and based largely on anecdote; government estimates claim that between 600,000 and 800,000 citizens were working outside the country, the vast majority of them illegally. (references) |
Travel | Sweden | There is an anecdote that concludes the Swedish worker is the most efficient in the world, unfortunately he only works 8 months a year. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before." |
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| "Anecdote" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.40% of the time. "Anecdote" is used about 168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.4% | 167 | 24,143 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.6% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "anecdote": relate an anecdote. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "anecdote": mid-anecdote. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "anecdote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | anekdote. (various references) | |
Albanian | anekdotë, histori e shkurtër. (various references) | |
Arabic | فكاهة (humor, humour, jest), نكتة (crack, gag, hoax, jest, joke, pleasantries, rib, witticism), نادرة (drollery, story), قصة (account, fiction, narration, narrative, novel, recital, report, story, tale, yarn), حكاية (history, narration, narrative, relating, relation, story, tale, yarn), طرفة (witticism). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | виц, анекдот (joke), история (affair, history, story, tale). (various references) | |
Chinese | 軼事 , 奇聞 . (various references) | |
Czech | anekdota (joke), historka (story). (various references) | |
Dutch | anekdote. (various references) | |
Esperanto | anekdoto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | lítil skemtisøga, lítil søga. (various references) | |
Finnish | pilajuttu, kasku (story), juttu (case, lawsuit, story, tale). (various references) | |
French | anecdote. (various references) | |
German | Anekdote. (various references) | |
Greek | ανέκδοτο (unpublished). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעשי" (fairy tale, legend, story, tale), א ק"וט" (joke), ב"יח" (funny story, gag, jape, jest, joke). (various references) | |
Hungarian | anekdota (racy anecdote, story). (various references) | |
Indonesian | anekdot, cerita lucu. (various references) | |
Italian | aneddotti, neddoto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 逸話 , 逸事 (unknown fact), 珍談 (funny story, gossip), 小話 , 小話 (briefstory), 小' (briefstory), 外伝 (supplementary biography), アニリン"料 (anemone, aniline dye, Anoekumene, anus, windflower), 一つ話 (common talk), 一口話 (joke). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいで" (foreign telegram, supplementary biography), しょうわ (amusing story, briefstory, Japanese emperor, sayingin chorus), ひとくちばなし (joke), ひとつばなし (common talk), いつわ, いつじ (unknown fact), "ばなし (briefstory), アネクドート , ち" " (funny story, gossip). (various references) | |
Manx | skeealleen, naight (intelligence, narration, news, tale, tidings). (various references) | |
Papiamen | anékdota. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anecdoteay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anedota. (various references) | |
Romanian | anecdotã, snoavã (story), istorioarã (storiette, story), banc (Baccara, bank, bed, crank, layer, reef, run, wisecrack). (various references) | |
Russian | анекдот. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | anegdota, događaj iz života. (various references) | |
Spanish | anécdota. (various references) | |
Swedish | anekdot (anecdotee, story). (various references) | |
Turkish | anekdot, kısa hikâye (novella, short story, sketch), hikâye (history, narration, narrative, recital, Rede, story, tale, version, yarn), híkâye, fikra, fıkra (article, clause, funnies, joke, paragraph). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юorta sцz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | історія (affair, history, story, yarn), розповідь (narrative, tell, telling), епізод (episode, scene), анекдот (yarn). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giai thoại, chuyện vặt (anecdotage). (various references) | |
Welsh | hanesyn, chwedl (story, tale). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | anekdota. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anecdote": anecdotes. (additional references) | |
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"Anecdote" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anadote, anakdote, ancedote, Ancelotti, anecaote, anecdot, anecdotery, anecedote, anectdote, anectote, anedocte, anedote, anicdote, annecdote, antecdote. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anecdote" (pronounced a"nukdō't) |
| 3 | -d ō' t | antidote. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: acetone, enacted, tacnode. | |
-2 letters: acnode, anteed, atoned, cadent, canoed, canted, cenote, cetane, coated, coatee, deacon, decane, decant, decent, denote, docent, donate, encode, octane, tenace. | |
-3 letters: acned, acted, anode, anted, atone, cadet, caned, canoe, canto, cento, coden, coned, conte, cotan, coted, dance, donee, eaten, enact, enate, noted, oaten, ocean, octad, octan, toned. | |
-4 letters: aced, acne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: anecdotes, coenacted. | |
+2 letters: adolescent, ancestored, anecdotage, coattended, condensate, covenanted, defecation, endothecia, nematocide. | |
+3 letters: adolescents, affectioned, anecdotages, centerboard, codefendant, commentated, compensated, condensates, confederate, congregated, consecrated, considerate, contravened, contredanse, copartnered, counterbade, decarbonate, deceptional, defecations, delectation, deprecation, desecration, nematocides, recontacted, reeducation, undecorated. | |
+4 letters: adolescently, androgenetic, appendectomy, centerboards, cladogenetic, codefendants, concatenated, concentrated, confederated, confederates, constellated, consternated, contemplated, contredanses, countenanced, counteracted, countertrade, decarbonated, decarbonates, deceleration, dechlorinate, decompensate, decongestant, deconsecrate, deescalation, delectations, deprecations, depreciation, desecrations, deuteranopic, diabetogenic, documentable, educationese, endotracheal, fianchettoed, malcontented, nonnucleated, nucleotidase, paedogenetic, precautioned, redecorating, redecoration, rededication, reeducations, reinoculated, uncorrelated, uncovenanted. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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