1. a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person: "told anecdotes about his job"
▪ an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay: "his wife's death has long been the subject of rumor and anecdote"
▪ the depiction of a minor narrative incident in a painting:"the use of inversions of hierarchy, anecdote, and paradox by Magritte, Dali, and others"
Word Originlate 17th century: from French, or via modern Latin from Greek anekdota ‘things unpublished’, from an- ‘not’ + ekdotos, from ekdidōnai ‘publish’.
