Anecdote definitions

Anecdote

1) Account 2) Amusing account 3) Amusing icebreaker 4) Amusing story 5) Amusing tale 6) Amusing yarn 7) Bit of oral history 8) Bit of table talk 9) Brief story 10) Brief tale 11) Brief, interesting tale 12) Cosby specialty 13) Cute oral story 14) Entertaining brief tale 15) Frequent speech starter 16) French word used in English
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Anecdote

1) Report 2) Story 3) Tale
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Anecdote

An anecdote is a short and amusing but serious account, which may depict a real/fake incident or character. Anecdotes can be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always presented as based in a real incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place. However, over time, modific...
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Anecdote

• (n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. • (n.) Unpublished narratives.
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Anecdote

a short story used to illustrate a point, often used by writers as a way of introducing their topic.
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Anecdote

A short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or interesting event. A good anecdote h
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Anecdote

An'ec·dote noun [ French anecdote , from Greek ... not published; 'an priv. + ... given out, ... to give out, to publish; ... out + ... to give. See Dose , noun ] 1. plural Unpublished narratives. Burke. 2. A particular ...
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anecdote

A brief story about an incident or an individual, sometimes used funnily in longer literary pieces for illustration.
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anecdote

[n] - short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
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anecdote

anecdote (AN ik doht') An interesting incident or brief history; story, tale, short narrative; sometimes, a humorous account: 'Have you noticed that many public speakers begin their talks with humorous anecdotes?' Be sure you spell and pronounce anecdote properly. Do not confuse it with antidote: 'Jane told an anecdote about her early chil...
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Anecdote

A brief narrative describing an interesting or amusing event.
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Anecdote

An anecdote is a very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic.
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Anecdote

a brief written or spoken account of an amusing incident, often used to illustrate a point.
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20815

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anecdote

noun short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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anecdote

Tale or short story from personal experience. Anecdotes are interesting in themselves and can enliven and inform any piece of writing
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221

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anecdote

a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical.
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anecdote

[SAT terms] short account of an incident
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anecdote

[ACT vocabulary] short account of an incident
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