anthological
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an·thol·o·gy
(ăn-thŏl′ə-jē)n. pl. an·thol·o·gies
1. A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays.
2. A miscellany, assortment, or catalog, as of complaints, comments, or ideas: "The Irish love their constitution for what it is: an anthology of the clerical-nationalist ideas of 1936" (Economist).
[Medieval Greek anthologiā, collection of epigrams, from Greek, flower gathering, from anthologein, to gather flowers : antho-, antho- + logos, a gathering (from legein, to gather; see leg- in Indo-European roots).]
an′tho·log′i·cal (ăn′thə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl) adj.
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[ˌænθəˈlɒdʒɪk/əl] adj → antologico/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995