1. a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing: "an anthology of European poetry"
▪ a published collection of songs or musical compositions issued in one album:"a double-CD anthology of Moby Grape, the legendary Sixties San Francisco band"
Word Originmid 17th century: 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.
