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Anecdote

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Noun

1. anecdote

short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Anecdote

see synonyms of anecdote
noun
a short usually amusing account of an incident, esp a personal or biographical one

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Anecdote

see synonyms of anecdote
noun
1.  [pl.]; Obsolete
little-known, entertaining facts of history or biography
2. 
a short, entertaining account of some happening, usually personal or biographical

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Anecdote

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n.
1. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
2. pl. an·ec·dotes or an·ec·do·ta (-dōtə) Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography.

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