noun [C,U]
1 a short, interesting or amusing story about a real person or event:
amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor * The book is a rich store of anecdote.
2 a personal account of an event:
This research is based on anecdote not fact.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for anecdote is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does anecdote appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — anecdote appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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