Definition of Anthologist

1. Noun. An editor who makes selections for an anthology.

Generic synonyms: Editor, Editor In Chief
Derivative terms: Anthology

Definition of Anthologist

1. n. One who compiles an anthology.

Definition of Anthologist

1. Noun. a person who anthologizes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anthologist

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Anthologist

1. One who compiles an anthology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthologist

anthography
anthoid
anthoinite
anthokyan
antholite
antholites
anthological
anthologically
anthologies
anthologise
anthologised
anthologiser
anthologisers
anthologises
anthologising
anthologist (current term)
anthologists
anthologize
anthologized
anthologizer
anthologizers
anthologizes
anthologizing
anthology
anthomania
anthomaniac
anthonyite
anthood
anthophagous
anthophilia

Literary usage of Anthologist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"ponderable" personal preference of the anthologist which decides which shall be immortalized. Who knows what particular bent of the unknown compiler of the ..."

2. The Literary Magazine, and American Register by Charles Brockden Brown (1806)
"The anthologist having vented his spleen in the foregoing placid remarks, it may be deemed somewhat superfluous in him to add : m " We must no«r confess, ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"Sir Arthur expressly disclaims (in the preface to his new volume) the view that an anthologist should devote himself to rescuing stray, half- forgotten ..."

4. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"The apology for such experiments can only lie in their success: but the risk is one which, in my judgement, the anthologist ought to take. ..."

5. Books in General by John Collings Squire (1921)
"But the pacifist anthologist has no such wide reference as the martial anthologist usually takes. He cannot—at least he does not— include the whole range of ..."

6. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1904)
"Mr. Brander Matthews has written a small volume of delightful essays under the title of " Recreations of an anthologist" (Dodd, Mead). ..."

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