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Synonyms for anecdotes
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : an-ik-doht |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn ɪkˌdoʊt |
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Définition of anecdotes
Origin :- 1670s, "secret or private stories," from French anecdote (17c.) or directly from Greek anekdota "things unpublished," neuter plural of anekdotos, from an- "not" (see an-) + ekdotos "published," from ek- "out" + didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)).
- Procopius' 6c. Anecdota, unpublished memoirs of Emperor Justinian full of court gossip, gave the word a sense of "revelation of secrets," which decayed in English to "brief, amusing stories" (1761).
- noun interesting or amusing story
- He hated to have to explain the points of his anecdotes, as, indeed, what story-teller does not?
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- These anecdotes have been related as proof that Dunmore desired Lewis beaten.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
- Your anecdotes from Ad-Damiry and your quotations from Montaigne shall not help you.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you?
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- His courtesy, his smartness, his anecdotes, his reminiscences were all Boredom.
- Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
- What anecdotes he had of ministers who had cheated at cards!
- Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
- Several of the anecdotes, here narrated, were re-produced in that and other collections.
- Extract from : « Shakespeare Jest-Books; » by Unknown
- He was full of anecdotes, which I now wish that I had recorded.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- Cruikshank was always p. 401inexhaustible in jokes, anecdotes, and reminiscences.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- But, unhappily, the anecdotes have generally no proof of their truth.
- Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.
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