an‧thol‧o‧gy /ænˈθɒlədʒi $ ænˈθɑː-/
noun (
plural anthologies)
[countable][
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Modern Latin;
Origin: anthologia, from Greek, 'gathering flowers', from anthos ( ⇒ anther) + logia 'collecting']
a set of stories, poems, songs etc by different people collected together in one book
Synonym : collection:
an anthology of American literature—anthologist noun [countable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
poem a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme:
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is the first line of a famous poem by WIlliam Wordsworth.sonnet a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
Shakespeare’s sonnetshaiku a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables:
a haiku by Matsuo Basho about a frog jumping into a pond limerick a short humorous poem that has five lines which rhyme:
a limerick by Edward Lear, which began ‘There was a young lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway’.rhyme a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme:
a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations The children were reciting a rhyme. a nursery rhyme (=a short traditional poem or song for children)poetry poems in general, or the art of writing them:
He reads a lot of poetry. She wrote poetry and children’s stories. a poetry bookverse words arranged in the form of poetry:
a book of comic verseanthology a set of poems by different people collected together in one book:
an anthology of Caribbean poetrystanza a group of lines in a repeated pattern, which form part of a poem:
the opening stanza of Keats’ poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲