a collection of poems, stories, etc. that have been written by different people and published together in a book (不同作家作品的)选集 an anthology of poems for children 儿童诗集 The essay first appeared in an anthology of feminist criticism. 这篇文章最早出现在一本女权主义批评选集上。 We have put together an anthology of children’s poetry. 我们已经编成一本儿童诗选集。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- literary
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- in an/the anthology
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Word Originmid 17th cent.: via French or medieval Latin from Greek anthologia, from anthos ‘flower’ + -logia ‘collection’ (from legein ‘gather’). In Greek, the word originally denoted a collection of the “flowers” of verse, i.e. small choice poems or epigrams, by various authors.